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Bust The Arizona Republic ncss Church Comics Finance 00 THE STATE'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Saturday, January 5, 1963 Pane 13 CITY $3-Million-Up Bond Vote Set At Scottsdale SCOTTSDALE A $3 million-plus bond election to finance construction in the Scottsdale school district I I Orien W. Fif er Life Much Simpler-But Also Bit Empty New Jail Ready In Early '64 THE EARLIEST possible over the next two years is tentatively set for Feb. 11, A. W. Flowers, business manager, said yesterday.

1m Flowers said the school board has approved a figure of $2,120,000 for elementary school needs for 1964-65. The board will decide at a meeting at 7 p.m. Monday on the amount to be spent for planned expansion in the date for alleviating over high schools. Flowers estimated two-year high scnooi school needs in the district at between $1 million and crowded conditions at the Maricopa County jail is a few months more than a year away, Sheriff L. C.

$1.5 million. Flowers said the combined elementary and high school bond is Boies said yesterday. sues would be presented to the expanding Arcadia, with a present enrollment of 1,700, to accommodate 2,000 and Scottsdale from 1,800 to 2,200. Plans may also include the purchase of a site for a new high school. Relief will come with con county board of supervisors Jan 14.

struction of a new county jail, which will be built as The bond issue which would; ii mm; anHi School officials explained the part of a four-building county governmental complex, he said. range aril rt Pk-av $3.6 million, requires the nf hnrH nf hpjbetween 1.700 and 2,000 pupils in of the board of supervisors be The need for expanded jail elementary schools in 1963-64 and cause it would push the district's 800 in the school division facilities was emphasized Wednesday when prisoners staged a daylong riot, demanding better food THINGS ARE less complicated now. I don't have to get up five or six times each evening to open and close the door. And I will no longer be calling the cleaner man to have him take away the hair-strewn scrape, which hides the wear on my davenport. The screen doors, battered by Inside attack over the years, should need no further replacements.

I'm lure the boys who deliver my papers will be relieved, (or the commotion that usually accompanied their arrival will occur no more. It was pleasant to have an excitable greeting each evening when I came home from work. In fact, if I left the house for only a few minutes, she would pout, and then go Into hysterics on my return. Sort of flattcrings to the ego, if you must know. SHE WAS a good traveler.

Mention something about Prescott, and she would take up her station close to the car, making certain she would not be left behind. Whenever she was left in the car, she focused her black eyes on the spot I was last seen and scarcely blinked. As I said, things are less complicated. I don't have to go around the house picking up patches of fuzz. I don't have to shush her In the middle of the night; I will not be wakened by a strange body nuzzling up on a chilly morn.

I remember when she first came to live with us. She was a trembling, little thing, frightened by the new surroundings. She was treated like a queen, and I suppose that's why she preferred to stay close to home. The front per cent of the district's assessed uunnS uie and more privileges. valuation.

Officials said more than 2.000 FLOWERS SAID the bond issue' new home are being planned in may be expected to increase the the district within the next year. tax rate by a few cents. The total school levy for the district is now- $6.63 per $100 of assed valuation. Other factors that will affect! the tax rate are the size of thc Boies laid partial blame for the prisoner uprising on the "shamefully overcrowded" conditions at the jail. The complex, which will be located between Jefferson and Madison from First to Third avenues, is scheduled for completion by September of 1951.

"But if we have any luck our jail be finished before the rer.t ot the complex," Boies said. He said earlier estimates from Zoning Law Amendments operational budget, which will not sty m. be known until late land the district's assessed valua-l Uion for 19S3. The assessed valua-' tion figures are announced in August. To Be Heard Flowers cave this breakdown! of the proposed $2,120,000 bonding' AMENDMENTS to the city zon- projects for elementary schools.

the architects were that the four-story jail would be completed six to nine months sooner than the rest of the complex, by January. i 1964 at the earliest and April, 196-1 at the latest. He said he knew 'ing ordinance will be considered Rtpubllc Phot RIOT WRECKAGE Sheriff's Capt. A. J.

Libby inspects mattresses and blankets that were burned by prisoners at the Maricopa County jail during a riot Wednesday. The bedding was being hauled to the dump yesterday. Damage to the courthouse, where the jail is situated, and to bedding and other jail furnishings was reported by county officials to be more than $2,000. Chief Thomas Defends Setup At City Jail Annex- CIVTV-CITVFNJ nmr cl-iccrrinme or oy the Phoenix City Council at a public hearing at 7:30 inntce too Ann Jan. 29 the City Council cham- p.m.

in In 1963-64 additions are sched- bcrs. ot Unlmlram C.ll Oil i of no change in these plans. PRISONERS in the present overcrowded jail rioted Wednesday de Mht k'iva MM I Joh W- cMV Plannm8 the items were director, said muLuiiaiu nine iia.mimfui-ii imvt manding better food and expanded; privileges. The riot was quieted; i recommended for approval by the ClaNS- 5520 N. 8Gth 16 v-liy nanninK v-ummissiun ai Innmi- Vatranai 7111 7Klh Si without meeting the prisoners de mands, Boies said.

annex doesn't have enough guards to do this safely, Thomas said. The present jail was built to yard and the back yard were her fields of I used to get a little mad when, through my own neglect, I had failed to provide her with her favorite food. That meant I would have to drive to the grocery before my own breakfast, Just so her hunger could be appeased. She received a lot of publicity, but it didn't go to her head. If anything, it went to her stomach.

Her shape resembled a pear, and whenever she had a physical checkup, she would lower her eyes as the doc said she was too fat. I WILL not have to take her through that ordeal again. When I decided on a quick trip to Germany, I left her with Mary Lou, a pal of hers for 10 years. She had stayed there before, and I knew she would receive loving care. Shortly before I was to return, I wrote, suggesting that the little rascal be taken home the day of my arrival.

I knew I wouldn't be getting in until close to midnight, and I wasn't looking forward to an empty house. It was not to be. Several days earlier Snookie had lost her bout with old age; something about complications of chest and kidneys. I guess there's no medical term for a broken heart. 1 16 rooms; and Navajo, 6Q7 N-l hearing Oct.

3. Granite Reef Road, 6S01! Amendments to be considered E. Oak, and Paiute, 645 W. Os- include a new zoning concept in-jborn, six classrooms each. Ivolving a special permit system i In 1964-65, additions are planned'10 govern "out-of-the-ordinary" house 227 prisoners and occasionally the census is more than 700 prisoners, he said.

The chief disputed charges made to The Arizona Republic bv a recently released inmate uy a iiv-umiy Mohave, 16 classrooms; Yava- Mohave, 16 classrooms; a. Yava-that annex food was indaquate ipai pimai 8330 0sborn. six be- i City officials said the requests would involve such things as air- and "manv" prisoners were be and "manv" nrisnnrrs were classrooms; Paiute and Supai, C720 E. Continental three The new jail has been designed to house 5S6 prisoners, all maximum security, and will be used In conjunction with the present minimum security jail annex, at 3319 W. Durango.

I craft landing strips, helistops, electric substations, rifle ranges hours in protest of conditions' there. (The county prisoners claimed dissatisfaction with food, sanitation, medical treatment and a loss of visiting privileges.) Referring to his city jail compound, Thomas explained: THERE ARE no bunks in the tank because in the past prisoners have taken the bunks apart and used them to break out of or damage the building. Prisoners sleep on mattresses on the floor. Inmates are denied reading material as "part of the punishment." No part of the city jail setup has regular visiting hours, classrooms each. The bond issue for elementary and television towers.

"The special permit procedure," city officials said, "is intended to allow the reasonable location of The annex is so underused, one schools also provides for $170,000 for additional sites; $120,000 for options to expand sites at Kiva of its three prisoner wings is be ing utilized as a storeroom, offi land Pima schools, and $107,000 fornises with abnormal character- cials reported. FIFTY or more prisoners in a tank of the city jail annex while away their days in idleness, denied regular visitors and even reading matter, Police Chief Charles P. Thomas confirmed yesterday. They are inmates of the "rabbit tank," designed to hold petty offenders who have run away or given indications they might flee under less stringent security procedures. But any inmate sent to the compound at 3001 E.

Watkins to serve "straight jail time," as distinguished from a term in which he can serve two days for one by working outside, spends it in the more secure "rabbit tank." SOME INMATES may spend six months or more there. (Coincidentally, the matter was brought to this newspaper's attention on the same day that 108 prisoners of the Maricopa County jail, atop the courthouse, rioted for several Each wing of the annex can ac furniture and equipment forjistics while maintaining adequate schools where additions a protection to the surrounding planned. area." Flowers said building plans for Under the permit system, such the high school program include things as locating an electric sub- station would be subject to specif commodate 80 prisoners. In addition, the annex includes a tank which can hold 30 maximum se ing held after sentences were served. THE REPUBLIC'S informant has been arrested here five times for drunken driving since 1959, police records show.

Thomas acknowledged that many of the annex prisoners are alcoholics who "perhaps shouldn't be here, but not other place is provided for them when they break the law." "I think we're running an excellent jail," he said. "The administration is good and the place is clean. The prisoners get ample food. "But this is a jail. This is not an honor farm.

We're not running a recreational home for rehabilitation of drunks. And we're not babying them." curity prisoners. but special arrangements are Dorothy Kilgallen fv HOWEVER, the annex usually ic city approval after a hearing, rather than to the blanket permis houses only from 85 to 150 prisoners while the main jail is often drasticallv overcrowded. Dean, Jocko sion now provided in certain es- tablished zoning categories. The reason for this is that made in any emergency.

THE POLICE chief said the inmates are taken out of the tank once a week for a routine search for weapons and other contraband. But they're not otherwise allowed into the fenced yard outside the exercise because the Vcleran Valet Slips Into Familiar Role sheriff's deputies feel most of the Sel For Ball TWO OF THE sports world's prisoners in the main jail are top security risks and cannot be housed in the minimum security annex, Boies said. FBI Alerted To 'Robbery1 best known luminaries, Dizzie Dean and Jocko Conlon, will participate in this year's Arizona Patriots Ball Friday at Camel-j back Inn. Insanity Laid Smo2, Nursing Home A gang of tough hombres is i going to rob the First National Country Club Issue Studied i Some 400 persons are expected Baok at Main and Scottsdale at to attend with Mr. and Mrs.

P-m. today. ToMHligan iStewart, operators of Camelback But don't worry. The marshal Regulations Expected knows about it and he isn't go The issue of whether Arizona Inn, as the hosts. ing to waste time making arrests.

He's just going to drop 'em MARICOPA County regulations aimed at curtailing smog in the; Country Club is a nonprofit cor- Proceeds from the semiformal CHARLES E. Milligan's former attorney, who was to represent the Tempe pipefitter before the State Industrial Commission, tes Valley are expected to take effect Feb. 19, Dr. S. F.

Farnsworth, poration was taken under advise where he finds 'em. dinner-dance go to the Citizens tified yesterday he believes Mil- ment yesterday by the Arizona jnformation center. 4512 N. Cen. Corporation Commission.

itra Some club members are seeking! event wjn presenta, county health director, said yesterday. On the same day, the county Is also expected to put into effect stringent regulations governing the operation of nursing homes, Farnsworth added. i Farnsworth said legal technical-' relief if a person claims undue ligan was insane last Aug. 2. Fifteen minutes later, in typical Scottsdale fashion, they'll be square-dancing a half-block away on Main Street.

By 2:15 there will' be a tug-o-war across the street in the same That was the day Milligan, who to invalidate an amendment to'lion of the J962 Freedom Awards is on trial in Superior Court, held the clubs corporate articles gov-10 persons in education, the cler ities involving both sets of regu-jhardship under the regulations, lations haw been worked out by; crning tranference of membership eight persons hostage at gunpoint and'spot. Fifteen minutes later, Scotts- gy, business, press, radio television. in an industrial commission hear-. the county attorney's office and ulations would not be the final pnv fiCS-- ing room while pressing his claim jw be ready for advertising t0 the county's for compensation. Some of the 'cek problems.

It is only the Their contention is that they were pntitli'H In 311 rinvs' nolirp nf smog begin- Rescrvations may be made by dalians will give a performance of how tourists look to them. It is all in fun, intended to advertise the annual Parada del Sol World's Championship Rodeo hostages were held for as long asl hC the amendment instead of the Camelback Inn or the dav notice allowed in the case oi CIC office or at 27 E. Main in hnurc i 1 The nronosed nursinc home rp 1,2 and 3. IMesa. I as fLiiuu, puDiic neanngs uatjons are identical to the reg- non-prom corporations The attorney, Stephen Gorey.jon both sets of regulations will ulations adopted last year by the' was shot in the leg in a scuffle, held betore the county board of jslatv heath department, Farns-i WHILE JACKIE Gleason sunned himself in Lantana, he gave his valet, Michael Lenarsey, permission to serve at President Kennedy's New Year's Eve party in Palm Beach.

It was a familiar chore; Lenarsey is a native of Palm Beach and has been employed by the President's father. Debbie Reynolds has signed for the lead role in the screen version of "Mary, Mary," being filmed by Warner Brothers. And there seems to be a good chance that Barry Nelson will re-create for celluloid customers the role he played on Broadway. Although the new show "The Beauty Part" won favorable notices from six of the seven Important drama critics, the cast is worried that It may not be able to survive because of the New York newspaper strike. They didn't have a big advance sale, but were counting heavily on those rave reviews.

ON HER- FINAL day in Paris before winging back to Rome, Sophia Lorcn spent four hours at Alexandre's beauty salon having her collection of wigs and chignons prettied up. In the process she was introduced to the Duchess of Windsor, who was being coiffed a few booths away, and the two chatted like schoolgirls until it was time for Sophia to dash for her plane. Georgcous film starlet Anouk Aimee got just what she wanted for Christmas a new fiance. He's Dr. Carlo Simi, a wealthy Italian fellow, but in view of Anouk's history of engagements, don't make any large bets that he'll get her to the altar.

Edle Adams may have to cancel some performing engage-ments this month to stay in Los Angeles to fight her mother-in-law, who Is contesting Ernie Kovacs' will. Poor. Edle, so well liked by everyone in show business who knows her, really has had a hard time since Ernie's tragic death. First there was the court battle with his former wife to retain custody of the children, which Edie won, and now she faces the distasteful task of another judicial hassle with Ernie's mother. PRETTY BETSY Von Furstenberg hasn't been seen much in the cafes during the last couple of years, but she made the Metropole to catch Gene Krupa's midnight set with Franehot Tone as her escort.

They're old friends; in fact Franehot was considered to be an important suitor for Betsy's hand before she married Guy Vincent. The State Department wants Louis Armstrong to do another tour of the Orient and Africa in the spring. It'll be on his way, so to speak, to his engagement at the new Steve Parker gambling casino in Seoul, Korea, for which Satchmo's reportedly being paid $35,000 a week. Wouldn't you love to know who does the gambling in Seoul and with whose money? health Feb. 12 at the county mr sa health department, 1825 E.

Roose-! with Milligan for the gun. Yesterday Gorey was a defense velt, and before the county super-; Prosecutor Joseph P. Shaw rested his case at midmorning before Judge E. R. Thurman.

Body Found In Desert visors Feb. 18 at the county annex, 3325 W. Durango. If both groups give final approval at those meetings as is expected, the regulations will be enforced Feb. 19, Farnsworth said.

i Defense attorney Herbert Ely is seeking to establish that Milligan was insane at the time. Milligan A 34-vcar-old Phoenix man, re-! l.v- YnTA r. 1 i I I is accused of four counts of false sel Tt missing bv his sister Dec. must be advertised for at least' 1,1 i97 u-ae fruinH Hnnn vpstornnv in imprisonment and one count rW Jll 5iWl 111 jifex. I I aavs prior to tne nuDiic near-'" assault with' a deadly weapon.

incs. the desert northwest of Luke Air After heini? shot. Gnrpv saidl that from a hospital bed' he tele-i "The "fririal advertising will ''race phoned Milligan "more than start next week," He dcd nf a RUnshot wound dozen times" during the day and, Farnsworth stated. whjch investipalors believe WM tried to talk him into freeing thej ADOPTION of the smog control in a frcak mishnp. hostages.

regulations is about two months; "I definitely thought he was behind schedule because sections Joseph Denny Prater, who lived just ready to commit suicide in of the regulations had to be re-, with his sister, Mrs. Thclma 1 fir the evening," Gorey said. "He did not know right from wrong at that time. vised for legal reasons, the doc- BoyeSi at 300g 5.1(n Lane was tor sa'c'' found by four laborers who were The major item to be revised in ihn nrna. The hmlv He was insane," Gorey toldiwas the procedure of appealing v9r.

fhJ thP rnnrf and inrnrc tn tliP rnimtv henlth hoard fori 3 I I 7 vicuill a lui. uuJiuii-a boiu. The deputies theorized that Prater, while target shooting with a pistol, was leaning against a shotgun with the barrel pointing towards his stomach. Deputies be 5UPPERTIME I (JILL N00) SETTLE WM IN DEN, AND NOT COME OUT i iliiini iiMiiiiiiiia TOKAJTHECOID WEATHER 15 Tfl 4 SEE lieve the pistol discharged as Prater drew it from his holster, the bullet striking the trigger of the shotgun and setting it off. Prater, father of seven children, had been a widower for five Ropublie Photo by Nyl Loithtm PLR POUND: $4.30 That's the price paid last night by Safeway Stores, for the supreme grand champion steer of the 1963 Arizona National Livestock Show.

Happy about the record per pound price is the Hereford's former owner, Mike Stcckel, 15, of Taylor, and the new owner, Henry Prank, Arizona division manager of the grocery chain. The animal weighed 990 pounds and brought a total price of $4,257. (See Story on Page 1.) months, i I.