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REPUBLIC CITY The Arizona Republic I cDotCeU fir E. tfa 'Burnt I 5 Sunday, August 12, 1973 0 (Section 15) Page 1 REPUBLIC MAIL Publicity puts pyramid firms into low profile By JACK SWANSON Pyramid companies are maintaining a low profile in the Phoenix area these days. News stories originated by The Arizona Republic, and national publicity about lawsuits directed against such multilevel marketing schemes as Sta-Power, Koscot, Holiday Magic and Dare To Be Great, have hurt local business, both government officials and pyramided themselves agree. "All this derogatory publicity has hurt even those of us in the multilevel distributing business who are legitimate," said one representative of a company which sells automotive additives. Pyramids are companies which deal ostensibly in legitimate products such as cosmetics, clothing, automotive additives" and household cleansers sold directly to consumers.

But the companies make most of their money from fees paid by investors for advancement to executive positions, training classees and "warehouse" use. Sta-Powcr and Holiday Magic, organized by the late William Penn Patrick, and Koscot and Dare To Be Great, founded by Glenn W. Turner, Paul Dean 'Genius or New book on Adolf Johnny has come marching home from four wars with his duffel bag a canvas treasury of depreciating booty. Parisian postcards. Luger pistols and samurai swords.

Chi-com burp guns. Viet-cong flags. Jiaricop a Tw HARBOR TSSl I 'Buckeye -f' I --y 4 I I 1 OVERPASS JP I 111 WIK5E Vaseline I I I lir 1 I One Johnny, Cpl. Jonathan Manning, U.S. Army Intelligence, marched home from rubbly Berlin in 1945 with a dogeared book of lies that may appreciate i an honest fortune.

He found it in a desk drawer, top left-hand, of a Nazi Republic map by Kearney Egerton travel through mostly undeveloped areas, lessening the cost of land acquisition and construction. The route is under study by the Maricopa Association of Governments transportation planning staff. providing additional links to south Phoenix via several new bridges across the river. West-bound traffic from the Black Canyon Freeway would be fed to 1-10 on a spur. Proponents of the route also noted it would A new proposed route for Interstate 10 through Phoenix would carry the highway below the Salt River between 51st Avenue on the west and 32nd Street on the east, avoiding the central part of the city and government office.

It was called "Adolf Hitler," first published in 1935. It contained 12 personal 1-10 route south of Salt River proposed face a series of suits filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission charging their marketing schemes amount to sale of unregistered securities. Two suits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix against Sta-Pow- er. Attorneys for eight parties involved in one suit are awaiting the outcome of one of the SEC suits against Sta-Power now being argued in San Francisco.

"The charges the SEC has brought agree with our original complaint," said David White, attorney for Gregg Jossie and eight others who filed against Sta- Power March 9. "That's a nice body to have behind you." E. C. Van Haaften, executive vice president of the Better Business Bureau of Phoenix, said his bureau continues to receive calls about Holiday Magic, but, few actual complaints. "We don't get many complaints be-; cause people don't like to admit they've Continued on Page B-S 27th avenues, and in the vicinity of 21st or 24th streets could be built as part of the interstate system." MAG is charged with studying alternative routes for Interstate 10 through Phoenix as part of an over all regional transportation plan for the Valley.

Its studies will go to the Regional Council, where officials from all 18 cities and towns of the county plus one county official will vote on a route recommendation to be submitted to the State Highway Department. Here are other benefits to Valley mo- Continucd on Page B-2 join the Maricopa Freeway and Interstate 10, running east from 32nd Street. A spur would feed westbound traffic from the Black Canyon Freeway at 27th "Such a route should permit residents of communities in the western part of the Valley to reach downtown Phoenix in 20 minutes or so, bypassing the congested crossings at Grand Avenue and the Santa Fe tracks," said one proponent of the plan. "At the same time it would provide much needed bridges over the Salt River. Possibly three of those bridges at 51st Avenue, in the vicinity of 19th or on traffic planning, confirmed the proposed route is under study, along with many others.

"We intend to look at all of these routes," he said, adding that suggestions received by mail through last Friday will be included in the official record, which he expects to be "an enormous document." The proposed route, as outlined to MAG traffic experts, should follow the old Lower Buckeye Road route on its approach to Phoenix from the Avondale area, drop across the Salt River channel at 51st Avenue, then run eastward along the south side of the river channel to By BEN AVERY A new approach to the problem of running Interstate 10 through Phoenix by routing it south of the Salt River from 51st Avenue to the existing freeway at 32nd Street is among many solutions under study by the transportation planning staff of the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG). The newest suggestion would keep interstate traffic out of central Phoenix, yet provide a high-speed route for residents of smaller communities to the west commuting into the Phoenix -Scottsdale Tempe area. Roger Brady, head of the MAG team New rules start at midnight Valley business leaders confused about Phase IV references, propaganda to peddle a man and his order, written in German by the deadly dozen ministers who comprised Hitler's cabinet. And Manning, the Phoenix author of 59 books, is ready to earn his 60th listing in the Library of Congress with a hardcover translation of his GI souvenir. Privately, Manning plans to profit from a Third Reich being reborn after 30 years by Sir Alec Guinness movies and the books of Albert Speer and Robert Payne.

Publicly, Manning is hoping to add substance to the trivia which have psy- choanalyzed, synthesized and criticized Hitler since his bunker suicide-murdcr-disappearance in 1945. "The purpose of this publication is to present Hitler as he was displayed to the German nation during the height of his 1 a i explains Manning. "These essays by his ministers laud Hitler as a brilliant orator, an untiring leader whose heart rested with the common man, a follower of classical music and the arts, an architect, and a truly uncommon man whose goal was to restore Germany to a position of power and prestige. "Millions of Germans were fed this brilliant propaganda. No wonder they followed Hitler as a genius.

No surprise many feel that way today." "Adolf Hitler: Genius? Or Madman?" will be published this month by O'Sullivan, Woodside Co. of Phoenix. It is the utter selling of a dictator, a snow job uber alles, the total making of a fuehrer in the decade before Allied forces foreclosed the promise of his empire. Two hundred photographs, the majority never published in the English speaking world, show Hitler as he wanted to be fabricated. Hitler the benefactor, shaking hands with an adoring, peasant class woman.

Hitler the paternal, chucking an aproned babe's chin. Hitler the diplomat, smiling with ambassadors from France, Germany and Poland. The original preamble to the book is by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's "minister of popular enlightenment" whose fanatic loyalty stayed firm to the end. Goebbels conquered captivity by poisoning his six, children, then ordering an aide to shoot him and his wife.

Goebbels introduces the book as "a testimony of Hitler's personality, compiled by his closest co workers and oldest comrades. "He Is known as a pioneer of a new Continued on Page B-8 By ROBERT REILLY Phase IV, 405-member National Association ot Meat Purveyors If you're confused about Businessmen say a major problem is that the regulations are written in vague, semi-technical language that is hard apply to their special ill -PiiiH laimunimiiuitiillllllutlliliUlll tU ff 'Si I'i H1 'mZ2fkMt- imiiniimim nnMrinai iri ifcl "I i I r-riT'T- you've got lots of company. Many business leaders in Phoenix and around the country say they don't understand fully how Phase IV will affect them. The latest phase of the President's Economic Stabilization Program goes into effect at midnight tonight, replacing the price freeze on nonfood items. "We don't actually know how Phase IV will affect our industry at this time," said a spokesman for the Arizona Retail Liquor Dealers Association.

"Our members say they, are going to get a clarification from the Cost of Living Council," he said. "It's a ridiculous situation." said a spokesman for the Herseth Meatpacking "Trying to keep up with the rules and the exceptions can almost be a full-time job." "I didn't understand what Phase I was all about, let alone Phase IV," said a construction executive who didn't want to be identified. "I don't know anyone who really understands what it all means," said Robert Thill, executive vice president of the The question and answer sessions sponsored by the Cost of Living Council at various regional locations often don't provide businessmen with the answers they need. 'At a recent Cost of Living Council regional meeting in Chicago, the government representatives couldn't answer over one-third of the questions asked," said one business executive "They send out these young kids, who just got their degrees in law and accounting, to answer questions about industries they know nothing about," he continued. "Attending those meetings is a waste of time." Some industries have indicated they will raise prices beginning with Phase IV, while others reported they will wait until they get a clarification on the guidelines Continued on Page B-S The Hotel Adams Is the first large building in the state to be razed with explosives Shopper finds treasure hunt Hotel Adams' Apprentice's idea blossoms into ranch for homeless hoys at Hotel Adams rewarding State poverty total to reach 335,000 in'74 Sixteen per cent, or 335,000, of Arizo fate sealed on powder keg By JANA BOMMERSBACH By GORDON I've been in every room of the Hotel Adams.

In search of On a 105-dcgree Saturday long after the air-conditioning had been turned off. bulk made me leave it behind and begin the downward journey through nine floors and 230 rooms. The top floors held little more than hotel-type chairs and bookstands that were a testimonial to redecorating efforts. If they had held anymore, my pre But it was worth all five hours and $2 of it. Treasure hunting or antique shopping or just plain junk scrounging is my favorite thing.

So one of the city's oldest hotels, filled with 62 years of furnishings and frills, was a natural. ROBBINS The youths participate in the chores of the ranch, where calves, horses, goats, sheep, chickens and pigeons are raised, along with a few dogs, cats and snakes. Morgan said boa constrictors arc the favorite snakes kept by the boys. The snakes usually provide no problems, although once a boa escaped inside the main building and the cook at first refused to come to work. There arc eight full-time employes at the ranch providing 24-hour supervision for the youths.

Counseling services are provided and a psychiatrist visits the community one day each week. Morgan said the state, through the Welfare Department, pays $375 per boy per month to the Community. This money pays 60 per cent of the $150 cost of keeping a youth for one month, and the balance is provided by various civic and By TOM KUHN The Hotel Adams, curtains flying from its gaping windows, sat on a powder keg Saturday night, waiting to die. At approximately 7:30 a.m. today, dynamite explosions will topple the front five stories of the 62-year-old hotel.

Police will cordon off a nine-square-block area around the hotel to keep spectators away. Next Sunday, the back 12 stories will be dynamited. With its spine shattered in a dozen places, the hotel will collapse into the basement, expiring in a breath of mor- tar dust. The Adams will die with distinction. It is the first building in Arizona to be razed with explosives.

Wreckers began their work Thursday, Five years ago Jack Morgan was an apprentice concrete finisher with an dea. Now, Morgan, 25, is executive director of the Arizona Boys' Community, which provides a home for 22 youths 14 to 18 who usually have nowhere else to go. Morgan's idea for the Boys' Community grew out of his experiences in working with church groups and other youth jrograms. A desire for pcrson-to-pcrson contact with young people led Morgan to leave his apprenticeship in 1068 and establish the community on an 8 5-acre ranch at 4202 E. Union Hills Drive, just northeast )f the Phoenix city limits.

There usually are 17 boys at the ranch and five more staying at a nearby foster home. Most of the youths, Morgan said, "are several-time court offenders, either going to or coming back from Ft. Grant. They often have no relatives or family to go to." na's estimated 2.1 million residents will be living at or below the poverty level in 1974, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security. The projected total will amount to 70,634 more persons living in poverty than in 1970, DES officials said.

In 1970, Arizona's population was 1.7 with 264.430, or 15 per cent, said by the government to be living in poverty. The 1970 census showed 13.7 per cent 1 of the U.S. population living in poverty. The projected 1974 numbers of poor by age group are: Younger than 21 21 to and older thnn 65 49,000. Officials said the latter group, with an estimated 23.4 per cent living in poverty, will continue to be the most severely affected.

The annual income used by the government as a yardstick for measuring poverty is $1,723 for an Individual and ranges up to $5,771 for a family of decessor scroungers had beaten me to it. By the fourth floor I'd lost hope of finding much more than a cranc-ncckcd lamp and feature pillow. Then I walked into Room 412. It was like many other suites with their sun porches that occupy the lower five floors. But this room had one extra thing, one thing 1 hadn't already seen duplicated in dozens of other rooms.

An oval brass sconce was bolted to a wall. It held an old light bulb connected to dead wires. Unlike everything else in the room, It The hotel owners promised to sell everything, to put a price on memories and a bit of history before the demolition charges destroyed the building. That destruction begins today, with the five-story section of the hotel going up this morning. The rest will go next Sunday.

But it wasn't thoughts of destruction that led me nnd hundreds of other shoppers to the Adams. It was thoughts of salvage. My treasure hunt began on the sun roof, trying to figure out how to rebuild a wing-back chair. Its rickety frame and drilling powder holes into the hotel'i underpinnings. Once robbed of these supports, the ho- Continued on Page B-8 had no price tag.

No black number proclaiming its value. Continued on Page B-8 service groups. Continued on Page B-8.