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REPUBLIC MAIL Committee favors APS' route plans for high-voltage line pi ilk v' -c- Xt 1 A) r. "'SJf .1 'f' -r- Republic photo by Earl McCartnty Charred apartments son, vacant because of a previous fire, was a "total fire loss." It is owned by Robert Johnson. The other apartment, owned and occupied by Leon A. McCarthy, suffered "considerable fire damage." Fire officials said the blaze is under investigation. Phoenix firemen douse the charred remains of a duplex apartment at 2329-2333 W.

Madison yesterday. The fire was brought under control in five minutes by three fire units that responded to the call. Firemen said the apartment at 2333 W. Madi 17 The Arizona Republic June 21, 1972 Paul Dean's column will resume when he returns from assignment in Europe. Businessman plans to buy KHAT Radio By JACK SWANSON A Phoenix real estate developer and Investor has announced plans to buy KHAT Radio and operate it as an all-news station.

At the same time, State Democratic Party Chairman Herb Ely said the party is withdrawing Its protest over the sale of the city's present all-news station, KPHO Radio. Melvin Himelstein, former head of the Phoenix office cf the Federal Housing Administration, said he Ls purchasing the country music KHAT, 1826 W. from Ray Odom for a reported $150,000. Odom Is slated to manage KPHO Radio when the Federal Communications Commission approves the license transfer from the Meredith Corp. to Dairy-land Managers Inc.

The Democratic Party executive committee protested the KPHO transfer because Dairyland plans to broadcast country western music and drop the all-news format. KPHO operates 24 hours a day and KHAT is a "daylight" station, operating from dawn or 6 a.m. until diufc. The sale of KHAT is subject to FCC approval of the license transfer, which is expected to take about three months. FCC approval of the KPHO sale has been held up nearly a year because of the Democratic Party protest and Odom's failure to find a buyer for KHAT.

FCC regulations prohibit the manager of one station owning another. Ely said the sale to Himelstein and his plans to broadcast all-news and public affairs programming removed the Arizona Democratic Party's executive committee's objections to the KPHO format change. "Our only interest was to be certain that Phoenix continued to have a primarily news station," he said. He said the FCC was to have been notified yesterday by telegram of the protest withdrawal. Himelstein, a graduate of North Phoenix High School and Stanford University, said his entry into the communications field is "surprising to some acquaintances but quite expected by my close associates and friends.

"From the time I left college some years back, I've had the ambition to find my way into the communications field," he said. Himelstein said he plans to present news and public affairs programming in a "newspaper format." Facilities at KHAT's present site will be expanded, and remodeled, he said, to handle more personnel. Page Tucson Medical Center plea Hospital rate increase under study Arizona Public Service Co. yesterday received a favorable recommendation on a 16-mile route for a high-vcltage transmission line from Pinnacle Peak down Seventh Street through the Phoenix Mountains to the company's Sunnys-lope substation. The recommendation was the first official action of the state's Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee.

Final action will be taken by the state Corporation Commission. The committee's responsibility is to determine the environmental compatibility of the proposed sites for power plants and transmission lines. Estimated cost of the line will be about $2.5 million. The recommended route was the least expensive of three proposed routes and, from evidence presented, by APS, the least objectionable on environmental grounds. A group of 45 persons had petitioned the committee in opposition to one of the proposed routes.

Attorney General Gary Nelson, committee chairman, said the persons objected to a route along Cave Creek Road. That route was not recommended by the committee. The APS application said total esti- The committee was generally favorable toward TMC administrator Donald Shopshire, and did not subject him to unfriendly questions. Shopshire, who testified at length, described TMC's rate philosophy as "the Robin Hood System," making the rich pay for the poor. Attorney James M.

Sakrison, representing Motorola, went on record as asking the committee to postpone the hearing until Motorola has access to TMC records. Motorola, just prior to the hearing, lost a last-minute attempt to have the Stats Court of Appeals in Phoenix delay the hearing. Monday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Morris Rozar turned down Motorola's request for a preliminary injunction to delay the hearing. eral representing Valuation Director Arlo Woolery, said the supervisors apparently acted in the belief their Superior Court had outlawed the recent practice of uptrending a third of the values in their county each year, instead of increasing the whole county at once. The uptrending question remains untried and undecided by the courts, Winter said.

If no valuation increases are allowed in populous Pima and Maricopa counties until all their values can be in-creassd together, an unfair share of the state property tax will fall on other counties where it has been possible to upgrade all their values every year, Winter indicated. Henry Behling, who identified himself only as a consumer, called for a show of hands cf members of the audience who were not working for hospitals or allied businesses. Behling said later he counted only six hands. He protested that the hearing should have been at night to accommodate more working people. Roos said the committee set the time for the hearing for its own convenience.

Many of the opponents to the increases, which would raise private rooms $6 from $64 to $70 per day, said they were frustrated on questioning TMC administrators because they did not have access to hospital financial records. These records were in the hands of the committee, however, and there was only oblique reference to the financial data. mated cost for the route down Cave Creek Road was $3.1 million. A third route down 32nd Street had an estimated cost of $2.8 million. Harvey V.

Taylor, APS electrical engineering manager, told the committee the transmission line as needed to help supply Moon Valley, Paradise Valley and Deer Valley. Without the line, Taylor said existing lines could become overloaded next summer and burn. Keith Turley, APS executive vice president and general manager, pointed out that the recommended route followed five miles of an existing high voltage line corridor. He also said both the Phoenix Parks Board and Maricopa Parks and Recreation Department had expressed preference for the proposed route. The committee changed one part of the APS proposal by recommending that a more esthetic but expensive steel pole be used on a three-mile stretch of the route.

APS had proposed a steel-lattice tower. Taylor said the steel pole and power line cost is about $110,000 per mile and the tower and power line cost is about $55,000 per mile. Two arrested in robberies at food stores Phoenix police yesterday arrested two men suspected of staging armed robberies that netted $6,300 at two Phoenix food stores within the past six' days. One of the men was identified as Michael Rogers Taylor, 33, of 6429 W. Mitchell, who was free on bond while awaiting sentence in Superior Court on his guilty plea to a $9,600 armored-car robbery in Phoenix last February.

Police said the other suspect was Charles Dean Clark, 29, of 15002 N. 26th St Detective Sgt. Wil Faulkner and two robbery division officers said they arrested Taylor and Clark in the predawn hours yesterday at the Rodeway Inn, 3400 Grand Ave. Faulkner said the men were in the company of Cathy Lautzen-heiser, 20, who is on three years' probation for a narcotics violation. She was not charged in connection with the robberies.

Faulkner said the men later were identified by robbery witnesses from a police lineup. Last Friday two-men escaped with $3,000 from the A. J. Bayless Market, 3417 N. 16th St.

A lone bandit took $3,300 Monday from a Bayless store at 6131 N. 35th Ave. Taylor was charged earlier as one of two men who robbed an Armored Motor Service Co. employe of $9,626 in the Chris-Town shopping mall, 19th Avenue and Bethany Home on Feb. 28.

A second suspect in that robbery has been identified as John Howard Jennings, 29, of Galen, Mont. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Jennings is believed to be the man who hijacked a small seaplane to Cuba from Key West, March 19. The whereabouts of Jennings remains unknown, police said. Indicted by the Maricopa County grand jury for the armored car robbery, Taylor pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge Ed Hughes on May 21. He subsequently petitioned for a change of judge and was free on bond pending his sentencing Friday before Judge Robert Myers.

Berry said the girl told of being held for seven hours by four men in Alexander's Chapman street residence. She said she was subjected to almost continuous sexual assault by the men until she was released. Detectives Berry and Gordon Hunsaker, who made the investigation, said a doctor's report indicated the girl had bruises, abrasions and knife wounds on her body. Bruises and marks on her neck appeared to have been the result of strangle holds, the doctor said. Berry said that the girl told him she had known Hall for about nine years.

She said she was walking on North 20th Street June 10 and talking to Hall when three men grabbed her and forced her into a car. The girl told police she was released the next morning and warned by the men not to contact police or she would be killed. She said they also told her they would return for her the next day to place her in prostitution. The arrest warrant signed by Jenkins charged the men with kidnaping with intent to commit rape, lewd and lascivious acts, aggravated assault, rape and sodomy. Peabody Coal seeks cut of $4 million in valuation Parks board seeks acreage near Papago The Phoenix City Parks and Recreation Board yesterday recommended the purchase of 123 acres of federally owned land just north of Papago Park golf course.

Although the land is owned by the Bureau of Land Management, the Arizona National Guard holds jurisdiction of the acreage and is seeking to purchase the land for further development. Charles Christiansen, city director of parks and recreation, said the city has been trying to acquire the land for years and strongly recommended a "compromise" agreement hinging on the purchase of three 41-acre parcels by the city. Christiansen suggested that the city enter into negotiations with the BLM to obtain the acreage at $2.50 an acre, while allowing the National Guard to develop one 41-acre parcel bounded by 52nd Street and McDowell. Christiansen urged the parks board to recommend to the City Council the purchase of the land to preserve its natural terrain. In another park matter, Christiansen told the board he has instructed the city staff to begin plans to redesip Encanto Park, including additional parking space, possible construction of a driving range and an expansion of food concession facilities.

Related Story on Page 23 ceived a stack of telegrams from as far away as New Jersey and more than 50 long-distance telephone calls. One, from Gordon Brigham of Lexington, charged, "You are discriminating against minorities by denying registration to new voters." "Why are you refusing blacks, chicanos and Indian people the right to vote?" asked the Rev. and Mrs. Ferris Harvey of Englewood, N.J. Marston asked some of the telephone callers the source of their information, and they replied that they learned of the matter through newspaper reports.

But officials cf the Associated Press and United Press International, the two major wire services, said that no stories were moved on their wires nationally on the matter. "I'm really peeved," Marston said. "We're one of lha very few states that has deputy registrars at all. We have 2,403 in the county, while in many states a person has to come down to the courthouse to register. "I resent people telling us we're prejudiced when we've got 2,400 people in the fie'd registering people within their own neighborhoods," he added.

Vote-bias protests pour in as Marslon cries 'slander Southern Arizona Bureau TUCSON A request by Tucson Medical Center to raise its room rates nearly 10 per cent was being studied after a hearing yesterday before the Tucson Health Planning Committee. The committee will meet tomorrow and issue its report to the State Health Planning Council, which will then report to the State Health Department. Bill Elbert, president of the council, said the committee would not make a judgment on the validity of TMC's request. However, Nestor R. Roos, chairman of the committee, University of Arizona professor of business and public administration, said the committee would probably make a recommendation in its report.

The public tearing in the Tucson City Council Chambers yesterday was attended by about GO persons. Widening job closes ramp onto freeivay Widening of the Black Canyon Freeway at Durango Street has forced closing the Grant Street on-ramp to the freeway, highway officials said yesterday. Instead of using the Grant on-ramp, southbound vehicles should enter the freeway by using interchanges north of Grant or following 23rd Avenue and Durango southeast to the 19th Avenue on-ramp, the officials added. They said that paving started yesterday on the third lane just added to the freeway's northbound roadway at Durango and that this lane should be open next month. Meanwhile, only one northbound lane is open between 8 p.m.

and 6 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Daytime and weekend traffic are unafiecled. Work also is under way on a detour that will handle southbound freeway traffic at Durango while a third lane is added to the southbound half of the freeway there. Only 6 appear to protest raising of hospital rates TUCSON (AP) Only six people appeared before the Health Planning Council at a hearing yesterday to protest a proposed 5 per cent increase in room rates at Tucson Medical Center.

They questioned several areas of the hospital's operation, including its need to add two more operating tables, and its development of a medical complex. The council will forward recommendations to the state commissioner of health who could ignore the report and set another hearing. I CRIER WD BETTER GIVE MEWftANkET QKLTHAT CRIED AND PONT TALKING AWUTJ CRIED ANP THINK I'M REAPV I PlD 7 CRIED i FOR THiS- Wa 3 held and 4th suspect sought in kidnap-rape of teen-age girl The State Property Tax Appeals Board will convene here at 10 a.m. July 11 to hear a Peabody Coal Co. appeal for a $4 million cut In the state's S9.5 million valuation on the firm's Indian reservation strip mine in northeastern Arizona.

In its appeal on file with the board, the coal company contends its mine property assessed by the state should be valued at $5,515,253, said Jeff Ferris, clerk cf the board. Mines are taxed on 60 per cent of their value. Friday, the board will go to Tucson to hear the state property valuation director's appeal on valuation cuts granted by Pima County supervisors. James Winter, assistant attorney gen Friendly clouds may cooperate to cool the heat Increasing cloud cover is expected to lower afternoon temperatures as much as 5 to 8 degrees today compared with yesterday. The National Weather Service at Sky.

Harbor International Airport said the increasing moisture may generate thunderstorms in some areas. Highest temperature in the state yesterday was Buckeye's 110 degrees, and the mercury reached 109 in Parker and 108 at Youngtown. Elythe recorded 112 degrees. In the Valley the high was 105 three degrees above normal for the date. And the low yesterday of 78 was 11 degrees above normal.

There was some rain. Nogales had .13 of an inch; Bisbee Douglas, Gila Bend, Ft. Huachuca, .01, and Prescott, a trace. The weather bureau radar also spotted new rain showers in the extreme northwest corner of Arizona. Maricopa County Recorder Paul Mars-ton yesterday denied a torrent of out-of-state protests that he is.

refusing to allow chicanos, blacks and Indians to vote. The protests, apparently related to a county Democratic Party suit filed to force him to appoint 200 special deputy registrars, mostly charged Marston with denying minorities the right to vote or register. "Someone has slandered Maricopa County," Marston said. "There are 2,400 deputy registrars in Maricopa County, equally divided geographically and by political party. What the Democrats want is more than equal representation for one part of the city, and that's not what the state law provides." A staff worker for the United Farm Workers Union, Bob Cornell, said that many of the protests probably were from UFW "friends" around the country who had been asked to complain.

Asked if, in asking for protests, the UFW had simplified the issue of Marston refusing to name special registrars by charging that he had refused to allow minorities to vote, Corricll said it had. "It's the same thing," he said. "You can't vote if you aren't registered. He's using his office to deny people the right to vote." By mid-afternoon, Marston had re- Three men were in jail yesterday and police were seeking a fourth in connection with an investigation into the kidnaping and rape of a south side teenage girl. Bond of $264,000 each was set by south Phoenix Justice of the Peace M.

Ralph Jenkins for Frank Alexander 25, of 2317 E. Chapman; John Phillip Walker, 21, of 2433 E. Marguerita; and James Norman Hall, 23 of 4450 S. 21st St. The name of the fourth suspect was not made public Phoenix police Detective Reuben Berry said the investigation began June 12 when the mother of the 17-year-old victim telephoned police.

Gov. Williams proclaims July 4 Independence Day July 4 will be Independence Day, by proclamation of Gov. Williams. His proclamation noted that the Sons of the American Revolution encouraged the pealing of bells nationwide at the same hour the Liberty Bell rang on July 4, 1776. rv cu.

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