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REPUBLIC Litchfield Park plans cradle-grave community education By CHARLOTTE BUCIIEN The Litchfield Park educational plan calls for everyone to go to school. Even infants. No Svhool no grades, and no fact-jammers to mar the joy of seeking knowledge. And no big central administration to squelch the adventure of teaching and learning. ALL THIS' in and near Litchfield Park, a planned community where bicycles and carts, instead of cars, will weave among the trees, shrubs and flowers to parks, shops and the community school.

Tlie community school will be the hub around which all life evolves, the center for play, for work preparation, and for the pursuit of knowledge and creative thought. Sounds like a dream. And, in a sense, it is; yet the plan carefully researched and realistically outlined by Arizona State University is being considered by the citizens, the school boards and the administrations of three existing school districts. THE PLAN CALLS for consolidation of Litchfield Elementary and Avondale Elementary ditricts and Agua Fria Union High School District. The affected area includes three towns, Avondale, Goodyear and Litchfield Park.

Initiating the education study was Litchfield Park, a farming community changing into a new town created by industry; For a new town, the developers believed, there should be a new kind of educational system. Goodyear Tire and Rubber creator of the new town, provided $15,000 to finance half of the local contribution needed to conduct a study of the ideal educational system. The other half was provided by the three individual school districts. The $15,000 was granted by Educational Facilities Laboratories, of New York, which was primarily interested in $48,000 was granted by the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. THE $93,000 WENT to the ASU college of education's bureau of research and services.

Codirectors of the study are Dr. R. Merwin Deever, the bureau's director, and Dr. Harold E. Moore, ASU education professor.

The study was completed two months ago. The findings, a 148-page book called "Design for Lifetime Learning in a Dynamic Social Structure," were dis- Continued On the study of facilities for early childhood (infancy to ace 7) education. Another wmmtmmiv.mm lAmamam H.iiMiHWwaawiww Phoenix weather Fair today and tomorrow with scattered high cloudiness, High 70 to 75. Yesterday's high 68, low 42. Humidity: high 68, low 20.

Details page A-12. Today's chuckle Teacher, at a PTA meeting: "I prefer to teach in an elementary school I know I'll have a place to park my car." Arizona Republic 79th Year, No. 234 Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, January 5, 1969 (Eleven Sections, 186 Pages) dead. Diane 1 JI J. Saigon recalling Afghan falls in 13 Ky aris Associated PARIS Allied sources said last night the Saigon government has ordered the recall of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's entire staff from the Paris peace talks.

There had been speculation among diplomats in Paris that the political future of the 38-year-old vice president was uncertain, but there has been nothing from Saigon to bear this out. United Press International LONDON An Afghanistan airliner groping through thick fog toward a landing at London's Gatwick Airport smashed into a house and exploded into flames early today. Rescue workers said 42 persons, including three occupants of the house, were feared dead. Visibility was only 100 yards, airport officials said, when the Boeing 727 jet of Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines plowed through trees and hedgerows, skipped across a field and demolished the house on the main road from Redhill to Eastbourne. -t i PERSONS WHO BTESFEB.

onfFJl't or TELEPHONE: 271-8000 staff Press mer foreign minister, is officially leader of Saigon's delegation at the peace talks and would speak for his government if and when the conference begins. Informants said arrangements already have been made for three members of Ky's staff to fly home about Jan. 9. They are identified as special political adviser Col. Dao Huy Ngoc; special assistant Nguyen Thien Nhon; and speech-writer Col.

Vu Due Vinh. THE INFORMANTS said arrangements are being made for the departure of the remaining 20 or so members of the vice president's staff who are affected by the recall order. In a related development also reported by the informants, South Vietnamese Premier Tranh Van Huong has cabled orders authorizing four out of 12 members of the Vietnamese Press Agency staff to stay on in Paris. The four presumably were being kept here on grounds their services are in the government's interests. nix-Tempe border is millionaire Leonard S.

(Sam) Shoen, 52, of Paradise Valley. Shoen, a onetime barber, is a man on the move, acquiring various Valley interests. SHOEN AND his 10 children control 33 separate U-Haul trailer and truck rental companies throughout the United States, with 1967 net worth of at least $8.5 million. The parent management company, Arcoa Inc. of Phoenix, has a net worth of at least $2.3 million.

Frontier Funland, it was learned, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcoa. Shoen will spend $500,000 to refurbish Legend which decayed badly while feared Ky is a political rival of President Nguyen Van Thieu but they are reported to have papered over their differences in order to present a united front in Paris. THERE WAS NO immediate explanation as to the reason for the recall of the more than 20 members of Ky's personal staff. Nor was it clear if Ky himself or Thieu had issued the orders for their recall. The South Vietnamese mission here is maintaining until the end of January options to lease two villas in the Geneva area.

They were selected last week as headquarters for Ky and his entourage if the vice president returned to Europe. Ky arrived in Paris Dec. 8 as special director and counsellor of South Vietnam's delegation to the Paris parley. HE LEFT AFTER two weeks nominally for consultations with Thieu. He has recently been nursing a bronchial condition in a resort outside Saigon.

Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, a for i AP Wirephoto PUTTING IT ON LINE Acting president of San Francisco State College, tam-wearing S. I. Hayakawa, uses brickbat thrown through windows of classroom last month to point to warning signs posted on campus yesterday in preparation for resumption of classes tomorrow. The plane carried 54 persons, including 45 passengers and a crew of nine, spokesmen said. Fifteen survivors were rushed to hospitals.

"I JUMPED OUT of bed and pulled the curtain open when I heard this terrific bang," engineer Eric Hankin, who lives 200 yards from the crash site, said. "Flames shot out across the field. I ran over there, but as I approached there was another huge explosion. I realized there was little I could do." More than 50 firemen fought the blaze. Wreckage and bodies were scattered over a wide area.

Another resident of the area, Donald Edwards, said the crash awakened him about 2:45 a.m. ran out and people were walking towards me from the blazing wreckage," he said. "How they survived, God knows. "SOME CHILDREN were lying on the ground. They looked like Pakistanis.

The wreckage was blazing from end to end. Survivors were walking. They said something to me, I don't remember what now. "Some bodies were lying on the ground on fire." Airport officials said visibility was 100 yards when the big jet slammed into a house on the main Redhill to Eastbourne road at the eastern edge of the runway. The plunging plane missed a densely populated area at Horley nearby.

The plane burned after crushing. More than 50 firemen fought the blaze, It was not known immediately whether the destroyed house was occupied. 0 Twenty-Five Cents era airliner Londo mxon picks 5 for top jobs in State Dept. Washington Post Service NEW YORK President-elect Richard M. Nixon named three top-level State Department appointees yesterday to help him try to solve Vietnam and other problems after Jan.

20. Nixon also announced that Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is being asked to stay on in Saigon for a time. The president-elect, in addition, disclosed an impending overhaul of the policy planning operations of the State Department and the National Security Council but appeared to back away from campaign statements that he would administer a "complete housecleaning" to the State ELLIOT L. Richardson, who was assistant secretary of health, education and welfare during three years of the Eisenhower administration and is now attorney general of Massachusetts, was named to be undersecretary of state. The undersecretary is the No.

2 official in the diplomatic establishment. The top man, Secretary of State-designate William P. Rogers, said Richardson will be his "alter ego" and will be involved in all policy decisions. U. Alexis Johnson, a 33-year veteran of the foreign service, was named undersecretary of state for political affairs, the No.

3 diplomatic job. Johnson has been deeply involved in Vietnam Continued On Page A-23 retaliated against an Arab commando attack Dec. 26 against an Israeli airliner on the ground at Athens. Israeli military spokesmen said in Jerusalem yesterday there had been no new outbreaks of fighting on the nation's borders and cease-fire lines during the previous 24 hours. Israeli deputy premier Yigal Allon yesterday visited the Lebanese border area.

Speaking at the village of Kiriat Shmna, which the Israelis said was shelled by Russian-built rockets earlier in the week, he warned Israel would continue to retaliate against Arab guerrilla attacks despite United Nations censure of the Beirut raid. He said Israel Continued On Page A-22 Today's prayer thou eternal one, we most earnestly beseech thee in this sacred moment of prayer and meditation that we may be able to completely put out of our minds all worldly thoughts and draw close to thee in peace and quietness. Amen. Old Legend City fun park to reopen mm 1 ey can do nothing for the 10,000 Arizona residents who invested about $4 million in the enterprise in 1961-62. (Company books reflect stock sales of $3.7 million; reports to the Arizona Corporation Commission inexplicably showed $4.5 million worth of stock sold.) These people have simply lost their money, according to federal and state officials.

A few stockholders who had enough faith to invest additional money in Legend City debt certificates in 1966 will get back about 30 cents for each dollar they put into the certificates. The money will come from a $14,000 settlement negotiated four weeks ago with rides operator A. N. Rice. But it appears that $15,700 still left in the old Legend City bankruptcy account will be eaten up by creditors and costs when the bankruptcy is closed this month, and most stockholders will get not a penny.

Because so many persons lost money on the venture, an Arizona Republic reporter spent- over a week researching documents and talking with lawyers, former officers, stockholders, and others, in order to present the first in-depth report about what happened and why. "1 could write a book," said one chagrined stockholder. THE FIRST chapter must deal with Louis E. Crandall, now 39 and living in Provo, Utah. For Crandall was the man who thought up Legend City.

Crandall, a Mesa native and a Mormon leader there, attended Arizona State University. His hard-driving personality brought him a meteoric rise in business and advertising. Wanting to start an "Old West" amusement park, he lined up leading businessmen as officers and directors and incorporated Legend City Inc. in April 1961. The company made a $15,000 down payment oh an 87-acre 'parcel on Washington Street and on June 21, 1961, 'started selling 1 million shares of stock at $2 each.

One hundred salesmen, lured by a Continued On Page A-22 ot -i 1 Jy it tf By DON BOLLES After a dismal childhood, the old Legend City family fun park is getting a financial transfusion and seems ready to move into healthy maturity. Now called Frontier Funland, the 58-acre park is scheduled to reopen this spring with new rides, new roofs, new paint, new money and most important, completely new management. The fact is not widely known, but the man behind the bustling activity at the park on E. Washington at the Phoe- CTVIC PLAZA IMPACT City Hall reporter Paul Schatt assesses the impact of the new $17 million Civic Plaza on its existing downtown neighbors. Page C-l.

DIARY OF HUMAN HEART- The dramatic trip to Houston of the heart of Mrs. Maria Acosta, a San Luis, Sonora, woman, is traced by Earl Zarbin in Sunday magazine. Page 6. IMAGINATIVE FASHIONS Women's Forum previews the latest spring and summer fashions on the eve of the Manhattan showings. Page N-l.

SUPER DESERT HUT The Sun Living Section features prospector Joe Livingston's supercomfortable desert home, with swimming pool, 17 miles from the nearest neighbor. Page M-l. General Index "If titsicte Bloody street fights end Lebanon on attack alert; students demand war draft United Press International lying idle the past two years, and he reportedly will go, higher if more money is needed. Shoen picked up the $4 million property for a bargain basement price of $850,000, so he is not saddled with the high mortgage payments which helped send the original Legend City into formal bankruptcy in September 19G6. He also plans to operate with a staff of 100, enough to run a good rides and food operation for the first year.

Legend City, in its first year, had as many as 500 persons on the payroll. While prospects appear optimistic, the new management and new mon- rights march International by violence much of the way, would solidify public support for Catholic demands for improved voting rights and public housing, much like the 1905 march in Solrna, which focused American attention on the plight of Southern Negroes. MORE THAN 600 riot police wearing steel helmets and carrying shields had to intervene when 5,000 Catholic nationalists and 2,000 militant Protestants gathered to demonstrate at the march's end began skirmishing in streets on Londonderry's outskirts. About one-third of the demonstrators on both sides were women. Many screamed shrilly and wildly swung furled umbrellas as cursing men flailed one another with any weapon at hand.

No firearms were evident. Police aided by civil rights march organizers finally succeeded in making a (JO-yard gap between the two sides in Shipquay Street near the guild hall. Catholics were urged to disperse quietly and most obeyed. Protestants, who filled more than 200 yards of the street at one point in the debacle, also began leaving. 1 reland civil United Press LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland -Screaming like banshees, Irish women flailing with furled umbrellas incited thousands of their menfolk in bloody Catholic-Protestant fighting yesterday at the end of a four-day civil rights march from Belfast.

At least 87 persons, including six policemen and several women, were treated for injuries during in-drenched brawling with sticks, stones, iron bars and jagged broken bottles in Londonderry and its outskirts. Police stepped into the frays with swinging nightsticks and water cannon, lambasting both sides. POLICE AND hospital officials said at least 119 persons were hurt in outbursts connected with the trek by Roman Catholic demonstrators seeking to spotlight alleged discrimination against them in Northern Ireland. At least 20 Catholic marchers were injured in a militant Protestant ambush in a ravine 7 miles outside Londonderry's ancient city walls. Organizers hoped the march, tainted BEIRUT Lebanon underwent a nationwide blackout last night in a practice alert against a possible Israeli attack.

Striking university students demanded full scale military mobilization. Traffic halted, vehicle lights were switched off and shades were drawn in homes and other buildings for 10 minutes in an alert which came a weak after Israeli commandos attacked the Beirut Airport. President Charles llclou met his council of ministers in emergency session last night, apparently to discuss aggravated Middle East tensions and student unrest. Earlier in the day, the students demanded the government order compulsory military service and punish those who allowed the Israeli commando attack to succeed. They shut down Lebanon's four major universities with a strike.

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