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Details, Page 19. 82nd Year, No. lio EO Telephone: Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, September 8, 1971 (Six Sections, 14 Pages) Nixon moves to win Rate increases as high as 25 sought by APS Ey BILL KING rem to Bolicies Cong Residential power bill boosts as steep as 25 per cent In some cases were proposed to the Arizona Corporation Commission yesterday by Arizona Public Service Co. Under cross-examination before the commission, an APS official acknowledged the firm's rate of return on the original cost of its facilities has increased to 6.33 per cent from 6.13 at the end of 1968 when APS electric rates were cut somewhat. )snm filled Associated Press WASHINGTON President Nixon acted yesterday to take the initiative in the resumed session of the 92nd Congress with a personal appeal for his broad new economic program.

Congressional leaders disclosed that Nixon will speak to a joint session of Congress tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., Arizona time, on the many actions and proposals he unveiled while the lawmakers were in a monthlong vacation which ends today. Some of his key moves, especially in the field of taxation, will require legislative implementation. And even on moves he can make by executive authority support from the Democratic controlled Congress would be valuable. Collaterally, political significance is Police clour path through 10 cents aimed at curbing international air hijackings and then launches debate on a two-year extension of the antipoverty program. With its two leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, heading a delegation to a Paris interparliamentary meeting, resumption of debate on draft extension was put oft until Monday.

Antiwar senators have pledged a fight against the action of Senate-House conferees in watering down a Senate amendment, sponsored by Mansfield, calling for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina in nine months if American prisoners are freed. The month's developments in Saigon, Continued on Page 4 ,4 AUKllM Prut pupils to integrated schools inside NO AGREEMENT Republic of Ireland Prime Minister Jack Lynch reports no agreement reached in talks with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Page 2. CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS-Gov.

Ronald Reagan says California Supreme Court's school finance decision will require tax Increase, but indicates legislature should delay action until next year. Page 4. SEVEN DIE Falling TV tower kills seven and injures two near St. Paul, Minn. Page 10.

MY LAI Sergeant tells court-martial Col. Oran K. Henderson asked him about My Lai, but that he replied, "No comment." Page 11. rr vk'W- AT A variety of other business also must be acted on before the end of the session, including the long stalled draft extension bill and five appropriations measures including defense and foreign aid bills. Even before Nixon speaks, the House Ways and Means Committee opens hearings today on a package of tax proposals recommended by the President, including repeal of the 7 per cent automobile excise tax and a speedup in increased personal income tax exemptions.

Chairman Wilbur Mills, has pledged prompt action but has made clear Democrats may amend the President's proposals to provide a greater tax break for low-income Individuals. The Senate votes today on a treaty storage area to begin hauling ride the buses with their children to observe the time and distance involved and meet the principals and staffs of the schools. Administrators have been threatened with a mass boycott by parents opposed to the busing of 26,000 of the city's 46,000 elementary school children. Pickets were the exception yesterday as Southern schools continued to open for the fall term under federal court orders that have placed an additional 150,000 pupils aboard buses to end segregation fostered by housing patterns. The openings were uniformly described as quiet.

The only trouble arose from mistakes in bus scheduling and confusion over routes and pickups. A few protesting pupils and their parents broke soft drink bottles in the driveway of Jordon High School at Columbus, when the pupils, assigned to another school, were refused admit- Continued on Page 18 But that is not enough to avert a need Group files challenge of Channel 10 By CLARENCE W. BAILEY A group of Phoenix citizens including builder Del E. Webb is challenging the Channel 10 television license of KOOL Radio-TV Inc. by applying to the Federal Communications Commission for per-mission to put its own station on the air on that channel.

First public indication of such an action was a legal notice published in the classified section of yesterday's Arizona Republic. The new group consists of well known lawyers. Republican businessmen and corporation owners, plus Democrats who are educators and antipoverty officials. KOOL Radio-TV Inc. has as its principal stockholder Gene Autry, longtime cowboy actor and singer.

A prominent Phoenix stockholder is its president, Tom W. Chauncey. Homer Lane, KOOI-TV general manager, said, "We're not prepared to make a comment at this time. We are studying the application and then we will make a statement. We feel that we have operated an exceptionally good station and we are proud of our people." In the legal notice the new group identified itself as the Valley of the Sun Broadcasting Co.

Listed as stockholders and directors were: Webb, chairman of the board, and owner of the Del E. Webb Construction headquartered here. Arnold R. Dahlbcrg. president, who also is principal stockholder of a Scotts-dale electronics firm, Video Control Corp.

and who is developing The Lakes, a $60 million lakeside community 3 miles south of Tcmpe. James H. O'Connor, secretary-treasurer, who is a Phoenix attorney. Grace Olivarez, Phoenix attorney and antipoverty official Harry J. Cavanagh, Phoenix attorney.

Robert H. Johnson, president of the Del E. Webb Corp. Roscndo Gutierrez, Phoenix civil engineer. Laura Daniclli, executive secretary of the Phoenix Executives Club.

Morrison F. Warren, former Phoenix vice mayor and now professor of education at Arizona State University. Harry Rosenzweig, Phoenix jeweler and developer and state Republican Party chairman. Dahlbcrg, spokesman for the new Continued on Page 4 Todays prayer May your grace never fail us, Lord. May it fire us with devotion to your service and always bring us your assistance.

Amen. for a rate increase by the commission now. R. Forsberg, chief finance officer of APS maintained during the cross-examination by state's attorney Charles Wahl. In addition to commission approval of new electric rates calculated to increase the company's overall power income 18.4 per cent, APS is seeking to make 14 per cent more on its gas service.

For residential gas customers whose winter bills now range from 14.48 to $18.16 a month, the proposed increase would cost an additional 64 cents to $4 20 monthly, or up to 23 per cent more. For residential power customers using 100 to 1,000 kilowatt hours monthly, APS proposes to increase monthly bills by 2 to 25 per cent depending on locale, season, and usage. But the company failed to provide figures illustrating the impact of its power rate proposals on refrigerated homes using more than 2,000 kilowatt hours in a warm month, it was noted by Robert Kircher, the commission's utilities director. He said such figures will be requested of APS for the information of the commission, which will continue hearing the firm's request for higher rates at 9:30 a.m. today.

Unofficial computations indicate that the residential bill for 2,000 kilowatt hours of summer power in Phoenix would rise from $39.42 to $48.04. or 21 per cent, under the APS proposal. The company said typical increases it proposes in smaller Phoenix home power bills from May through October would be: From $3.90 to $4.48, from $8.04 to $9.46. from $12.98 to $15.92, and from $22.70 to $27.94. During the winter, the same bills would rise from $3.90 to $4.48.

from $7.99 to $9.46, from $12.67 to $15.09, and frum $17.40 to $23.11. APS said some typical monthly Increases proposed for Yuma residents on their summer power bills would be: From $3.77 to $4.65, from $7.39 to $9.05, from $12.40 to $15.15, and from $19.44 to $23.65. Winter increases in the same bills would run $3.77 to $4.58, from $7.39 to $8.55, from $12.40 to $14.02, and from $19.44 to $21.95. Most others APS residential power customers, said the company, would face increases on the order of the following in the summer: From $4.49 to $4.68, from $8.60 to $10.05, from $13.51 to $16.62, and from $23.16 to $28.54. The same bills In winter would increase from $4.49 to $4.68, from $8.60 to $10.05, from $13.51 to $15.79, and from $23.16 to $23.76.

Most power purchasers for commercial or industrial purposes and irrigation pumping could expect increases of 18.4 per cent in their bills if the APS proposal got commission approval, according to the company. Irrigation pumpers using gas would pay 13.3 per cent more, while commercial and industrial gas billings would rise about 12.8 per cent, APS estimated. For residential gas customers now paying summer bills of $4.48 to $20.09, the APS proposal would mean an increase of 64 cents on the lower figure and a rate cut amounting to $2.72 on the higher figure. The utility also proposes to increase Continued on Page 4 Women chain themselves together seen in his effort to take and hold the initiative on the economic issue which seems certain to be a major one in 1972 presidential and congressional elections. In addition to his specific appeal to Congress, the President's appearance at a joint session will give him a prominent ceremonial platform from which to project his arguments nationwide.

The three major radio and television networks ABC, CBS and NBC were planning live coverage of the President's speech, network spokesmen in New York said. With the wage-price freeze portion of Nixon's program expiring Nov. 13, Congress is expected to keep in session until well past that date instead of winding up its work in October as some leaders had hoped. picket ait Pontiac bues leave See editorial on Page 6 that 10,000 of the system's 16,400 pupils rode buses under a plan designed to bring racial balance to all schools. In Indiana, the Evansville-Vandcr-burgh County public schools opened quietly.

Pupils went to the same buildings they attended last year in spite of a federal order to submit a "racial balance" plan by yesterday. Assistant Supt. Jerry Robins said the next move was up to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, whose Civil Rights Office issued the order. In San Francisco, where antibusing sentiment is also running high, school officials planned to demonstrate busing Friday for parents.

A court-ordered plan goes into effect there Monday. A school official said that on the dry run Friday parents would be allowed to Bank asks It may cost Maricopa County $10,000 in clerical help to research one question raised by the First National Bank of Arizona in its Superior Court appeal of a property tax bill of more than $100,000 for its unfinished main office. Jerry Kalyna, attorney for the county assessor, apprised the board of the possible cost yesterday. Attorneys for the bank have asked the county in interrogatories questions taken under oath prior to trial to list all partially completed buildings assessed in 1970 for the 1971 county tax roll. Kalyna told the Board of Supervisors it should be braced for this expense, if Maricopa County Superior Court rules that the county has to answer the question as part of the bank's court appeal of the tax.

assessor's office estimates it -rik-J-M Pill 9 arrested in Pontiac busing protest Associated Press An antibusing protest brought the arrest of nine women in Pontiac, Mich, yesterday as other schools quietly opened in the Midwest and South under court orders to use busing to rid schools of segregation. Police made the Pontiac arrests after five women chained themselves together at the entrance to a school bus yard in an unsuccesful attempt to halt buses from rolling under a federal court desegregation plan. Four others were arrested when they sought to block the buses. The arrests were made at a site where dynamite destroyed 10 buses eight days ago. Also in Pontiac, a bomb threat briefly forced the evacuation of several hundred pupils from a junior high school.

Across the state in Kalamazoo, a court-ordered busing plan was implemented without trouble. Officials said Page Page Astrology 28 Food News: Bridge 41 1st food 65-74 Classified 53-64 2nd food 75-84 Comics 28 Movies 48 Crossword 41 Obituaries 34-35 Dean 23 Opinion 7 DearAbby 27 Radio Log 51 Editorials 6 Sports 43-46 Financial 29-31 TV Log 51 Women 25-27 Weather 19 Computer creates Graham tax crisis county $10,000 question SAFFORD-Graham County officials said yesterday they are facing a financial crisis because of an error made in the preparation of the county's tax bills by the State Department of Property Valuation in Phoenix. Mrs. Lola Hubbard, Graham County treasurer, said the 7,523 tax bills that were sent to her office last week by the data processing division of the property valuations department failed to include the $1.90 state tax rate. Mrs.

Hubbard claims collection of taxes will be delayed until October, after corrected bills are sent out in late September, As a result of the delay, Graham County Manager Harold Gietz said yesterday the county will have to borrow enough money to cover expenditures through the month of September. The county normally operates on incoming revenue by early September, Mrs. Hubbard said. Last year tax collections through the end of September totaled more than $270,000. Neither Gietz nor Mrs.

Hubbard could estimate what percentage of the county's $2.8 million budget for 1971-72 would have to be spent during September or how much the loans would cost. Tom Chappell, chief of the data processing division of the property valuations department In Phoenix, said the tax rate that was used on the Graham County bills was approved by a county official over the telephone late last month. Chappell said 2,500 corrected bills will be sent to Safford today. The remainder will have to await the arrival of additional computer forms from the printer Sept. 20.

Chappell added that the Graham County bills were the only incorrect ones among the 600,000 prepared by his office for 11 other counties. Maricopa, Pima and Greenlee counties prepare their own tax bills, he said. would take 15 to 20 people about 30 days to research this question," Kalyna told the board. "It would involve hand sorting through 350,000 property record cards and about 56,000 building permits." The county assessor placed the unfinished, 27-story First National Bank building at First Avenue and Washington on the 1971 tax roll after a mandate came down last October from the State Department of Property Valuation to begin assessing partially completed properties. Until then, all properties partially completed as of Dec.

31 of each year had been left off the next year's roll. First National appealed unsuccessfully to the County Board of Equalization and the State Property Tax Appeal Board. It hijfl argued there were many partially completed commercial structures In the county which were not placed on the 1971 roll. The case is now before Judge Kenneth C. Chatwin.

Dan Durrant, an attorney for the bank, has asked the court for an injunction prohibiting collection of the tax bill and a judgment that the assessment is invalid. Durrant contends the directive De-gin assessment of partially completed structures came too late in the year, for the assessor to carry out. The result, assessment of only a few partially completed structures, is discriminatory against those taxed, he maintains. Kalyna told the supervisors the tax bill exceeds $100,000. The board took his request for the $10,000 expenditure under advisement until the court decides hether the question must be ansvyjred..