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6 licenses DFJVISIS THE MENACE Ketcham House passes 74 Thejftriiona Republic b'Phoenix, Oct. 5, 1972 REPUBLIC Lure of 'black gold' pipeline jy CHASER 3 35" pour into A laska to find riches to contract revoked The office of the state registrar of contractors yesterday reported it has revoked six licenses to contract and suspended another for 60 days. The registrar's office said that for neglecting to answer charges of failure to pay bills, licenses were revoked from A-l Construction, 1307 W. Thomas, Jesus Amarillas, Peoria; Cardinal Insulation and Roofing Tucson; Artdale Construction, 5602 N. 61st Glendale; Electric 3409 W.

Rancho Drive; and J. M. Henderson Contracting 1001 N. 21st Ave. Suspended until Nov.

26 for failing to correct poor work was the license of Tucson Equipment the registrar's office added. Phoenix woman raped by armed assailant A 29-year-old Southeast Phoenix woman told city police she was raped early yesterday when a man armed with a meat cleaver threatened her if she did not cooperate. The woman told Detective Ben Carlson she was bathing at 12:20 a.m. when the man broke into her house, apparently through the kitchen door. Job seekers BEAVER CREEK, Alaska (UPI) Over the border they come through all kinds of weather an endless stream of people searching for jobs in America's last frontier.

The lure of a gold rush Is long past and an oil pipeline of the future blinds them to the cold, hard facts of high unemployment in Alaska. Hundreds of them are hitchhikers, flagging down motorists with Alaska license plates on the rough, winding gravel road stretching from Dawson Creek, Yukon Territory, to the Alaska border. With a smile they ask: can I get a job in "Where Alaska?" "Me and my buddy are from San Diego," said a young man soliciting a ride in front of a clapboard hotel in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. "I got an uncle near Fairbanks," he said. "We need a ride there and say, you know where we can get work?" His name is Mike.

He's an -c 1 1 student with a knapsack in hand and no idea in his head just which town in the the the but set he out the cent unemployment figure. And a spokesman for the Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 867 said the summer of 1972 has been the worst since 1959 for his union. Piledrivers and Divers Local 2520 is having its best year in the past four, with 27 per cent of its members employed, compared to over 50 per cent in the three preceding years. The Anchorage area has nearly half of all the jobs in Alaska, and experiences less of a seasonable a i number than does the jest of the state. Labor Department figures indicate the number of unemployed rose from 4,400 last January to 5,600 last June.

This could be attributed to an increase in the labor market in the summer months. Throughout Alaska, 9,900 were unemployed in January and 9,200 in June. Still, U.S. Customs officials don't stop anyone from coming in search of work, provided they are U.S. citizens or have proper visa papers.

"What can you tell them?" said port director Shaw with a shrug of his shoulders. "We don't know what the employment picture is." Alaskan interior his uncle really lives in. Tell him jobs are about as easy to come by as hen's teeth in Alaska and he just smiles. "You got room in your car?" is all he wants to know. "They're still thinking of gold strike," muses Robert L.

Shaw, port director at U.S. Customs Station at Beaver Creek, some 90 miles south of Tok, Alaska. "I guess one out of every four carloads has job seekers, that's just a rough estimate," he said. "They come up all year long," Shaw said. There are single young people and couples with large families.

"No types," he said. "What they have in common is the belief that this is still the land where they can make their fortune, get rich quick," said. But their dreams don't square with reality. In Anchorage alone, nearly 3,500 people (7.1 per cent) are of work. The Alaska pipeline plans are not being laid across the tundra, but across desk of the U.S.

Court of 'MRS. Wilson would never goof off with the kitchen full Of DIRTY DISHES AN THE BED Appeals for further examination. Until that issue is settled, the dream of a job will be an idle dream for many. Tom McDaniel, head economist for the Department of Labor at Anchorage, is not pessimistic about the future of Anchorage and the state in employment. He cites the healthy increase in building permits sought this year as an indication construction is being continued.

But Joe Peck, a member of Pipefitters Local 357, disagrees. This summer is the worst since 1957 in terms of construction, Peck said. "The boom created by oil companies has ended for a while and there is only the big influx of people left as a result," Peck said. Peck has lived in Alaska 22 years and he can't remember a summer as slow for plumbers and pipefitters in the last 15 years. "I worked ten months last year and only one month and two weeks to date this year," he said.

Peck notes that 125 out of 495 men in his union are unemployed at- present. Local sheet metal workers are no happier. They have a 28 per 4 Lack of work force blamed for late school GLENDALE The contractor building Thunderbird High School has not hired enough workers to assure completion by the Oct. 26 deadline, the G'tendale Union High School District board was informed last night by architects. The board warned that the district would invoke the seven-day clause against Skarphol Construction Co.

of Tempe, if the facility is not completed and ready to use on The clause gives the contractor seven days to rectify any construction inadequacies. If corrections are not made in the seven-day period, the contract clause authorizes the board to sue the contractor for damages. Architects indicated that the school, at Thunderbird Road and 19th Avenue, may not be completed for several weeks. In related action, the board asked that a letter be sent to the contractor and the bonding company denying the board's responsibility in the delay. Board members indicated billrequiring safe bumper Associated Press WASHINGTON A better-bumpers bin, calling for federal standatds intended to save American motorists billions of dollats in auto-repair costs, was Jassed by the House yesterdiy.

The congresjional compromise, accepted by the House on a voice vote ind sent to the Senate, would keep major features of the original House bill which was rore limited than one approved by the Senate last year. Senate-House coiferees designed the legislation along lines of a bumpet-standards measure which tke House passed last May. Alhough no specific speed is listed, backers said the compromise was aimed at a standard to protect property at speeds of about 5 miles per hour average walking speed. Originally, the Senate voted to have minimum property-loss-reduction standards cover the entire vehicle. The House then decided to limit it to improving front and rear bumpers and thus protect external sheet metal in low-speed crashes.

The compromise follows the more-limited House approach. The legislation had drawn fire from the Nixon administration and automakers, with Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe saying it would "interject the government inappropriately into the marketplace." But backers of the bill said Americans spend up to $30 billion a year for auto repair, including $6 billion annually to fix property damaged in accidents. $7,000 paid for false arrest in May Day melee WASHINGTON (AP) Two men falsely arrested during the 1971 May Day demonstrations in Washington have been awarded $7,000 in civil damages. U.S.

District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell made the award Tuesday after rejecting the District of Columbia's argument that the demonstrations presented police with an emergency situation. Citizens "must be zealously safeguarded and the appropriate time to safeguard them is in times of stress and strain." The two men, Peter Roberts and Dennis Lieberman, were among some 7,000 persons arrested May 3, 1971. They testified they were en route to work when grabbed by an officer. Libertarians to organize at Tempe meeting TEMPE The statewide organizational meeting of the Libertarian Party of Arizona is set for 9:30 a.m.

Saturday in the Alumni Lounge of Memorial Union at Arizona State University. Purpose of the meeting, said press assistant Lawrence Jerome of Phoenix, is to set up a state chapter of the national party, which was organized a year ago in Denver. The Libertarian Party philosophy, he said, is based on two principles: Opposition to coercion in any form and protection of individual rights. X4 -i 66(Q)imS H10U THipuii gte" Union leader is elected Danes' prime minister N0TMADE AN' THE CDOKlt they were so sure the deadline would not be met that they ordered district staff members to calculate estimated damages for each day the school's construction is late. The damages would include general overhead costs for double sessions at Moon Valley High School, where Thunderbird High students now attend.

Busing costs also would be included, the board said. In other action, the board: Approved first reading of a policy that would give every student "due process" before a disciplinary action, such as suspension or expulsion, was taken. Authorized Young, Smith and Peacock, bond to invest $4 million in district bond funds. Approved plans for an addition to tie district administrative center that would almost double (he floor space. The estimated tost is $221,627.

International sat next to him at a table decorated with red roses. Jorgensen said he had been flooded with telephone calls. Smiling broadly, he said, "A dock worker from Aarhus scolded me for leaving the trade union but I hop; I convinced him it was the best for all of us that I accepted the new job." The stocky, bearded Jorgensen was orphaned at the age of five and draped out of school when he was 14. He educated himself at his local library. He was elected fe the Folketing as a leftwing representative of his party in and in 1969 was voted leader of the 250,000 member Sjecial and Metal Workers Uniln, one of the biggest and mos powerful in Denmark.

He said, "I would Ike to ask each member tobrgto this first meeting suggestions for the following objectives; "Criteria for building feeder roads, that is, roads connecting or feeding traffic into state highways or principal county highways connecting communities. "Criteria for service roads leading into feeder roads, such as logging or ranch roads of a permanent nature. "Criteria for roads of historic or outstanding scenic importance in remote areas. "Criteria for roads in forested areas; and suggestions for open grassland or desert areas. "Suggested roads to be designated as historic or of outstanding scenic importance and worthy of preservation in their primitive state." Classfication of Arizona's highways outside of the regular state primary and secondary sjstem was recommended by Wilbur Smith Associates ii a comprehensive report on road needs of the state several years ago.

United Press COPENHAGEN Anker Jorgensen, a self educated labor leader, was unanimously elected as Denmark's new Prime Minister yesterday by the 80-member executive board of the Social Democratic Party. Outgoing Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, who stunned the nation Tuesday by resigning only 12 hours after leading Denmark into the European Common Market, announced approval of his successor after a 75-minute meeting at Chris-tianborg Palace, seat of the Folketing (Parliament). "We will go to the Queen at 10 a.m., tomorrow," Krag said. "I shall hand in my resignation and then Anker Jorgensen will give his credentials." "Then, the heavy burden is yours," Krag said, turning to the 50-year-old Jorgensen, who Join Joe Gilmartin in his witty, fun look at sports three times a week in The Gazette sport pages. Joe writes the sometimes tongue-in-cheek column, "On Second Thought," which he admits, "even women read and understand." During basketball season he also covers the Phoenix Suns.

His writing has won him the honor of being chosen Arizona's outstanding sportswriter by the National Sportscasters and Sports-writers Association for the fifth time in the last seven years. Read "On Second Thought" every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in The Phoenix Gazette. i 1 i i Road planners to meet martin The Gov. Williams yesterday called the first meeting of the newly appointed Highway Classification Committee for 2 p.m. Tuesday.

He asked the 34 citizens who agreed to serve to suggest guidelines for highways in scenic areas. The meeting was scheduled for the Management Planning Room of the First National Bank Building. The governor expressed hope that the committee can complete its work with no more than two full meetings and disband before the end of the year. Legal Advertising NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby oiven that sealed bids will be received bv the Board ot Education of Phoenix Union High School System District No. 210 of Maricopa County, Arizona, for the following: Furnish and Install Underground Sprinkler System for Landscaping at District Administrative Offices at 2526 yVest Os-born Road.

Bid Call No 2-1072. sealed Dms are 10 oe inea wnn me Business Manager, 415 East Grant Street, phoenix, Arizona, on or before 10:00 a.m October 19, 1972. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Confe-ence Room No. 226 at 415 East Grant Street, Phoenix, Arizona by the Business Manager or his duly authorized representative. Soecifications to which this bid call mint ronfnrm are availahle at the Divi sion of Suoplv and Property, 415 East Grant Street, Phoenix, Arizona.

BOARD OF EDUCATION, PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL SYS. TEM DISTRICT NO. 210 of Maricopa County, Arizona CAROLYN WARNER, Clerk Publication dates: Arizona Republic Oe. tober $, 6. 7, 8, 1972; Phoenix Gazette October 5, 7, 1972.

Pipenlx daMte Irrigation SAN CARLOS PROJECT 24 hrs. ended 7 a.m. Oct. 2, 1972 Caoacity, acre-feet, 1,285,000 Aviilable storage, acre-feet, 46,407 24-rr. discharge, acre-feet, 0 SALT RIVER PROJECT Normal Flew Period No.

15 From 12:01 a.m. Sept. 29, 1972 to P.m. Oct. 1972, is for use on land in cultivation in or before 1885.

Short variations in rivers entitle lands in cultivation in or before the following year to a portion of full period accumulation as follows. 1877-100, 1878 50. Reservoir gain, acre-feet, 30 ROOSEVELT LAKE Capacity, acre-feet 1,382,580 Storage, acre-feet 170,849 Maximum elevation 2,134 Present elevation 2,033 APACHE LAKE Capacity, acre-feet 245,138 Storage, acre-feet 225,142 Maximum elevation 1,914 Present elevation 1,906 CANYON LAKE Capacity, acre-feet 57,852 Storage, acre-feet 55,374 Maximum Elevation 1,640 Present Elevation 1,658 SAGUARO LAKE Caoacity, acre-feet 67,765 Storage, acre-feet 62,779 Maximum elevation 1,529 Present eievjtlon 1 523 HORSESHOE LAKE 1,523 Capacity, acre-feet 139,238 Storage, acre-feet 4 933 Maximum elevation Present elevaiion 149 BARTLETT LAKE Capacity, 170,477 Storage, acre-teet 25 892 Maximum elevttion 1 79a Present elevatioa i 703 TOTAL STORED WATER Tota stored, acrvteet Total stored, year ago 717 424.

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