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Subscription TV will begin in July MUTT JEFF Police helper in doghouse after holiday A trained Phoenix police dog went AWOL for the weekend in the absence of his handler, partner in the STV venture, will proceed at once with construction of the station, Gwin said. He also said all STV equipment would be installed by Oak Communications. New Television will own and operate the station, he said, which will carry regular TV programs during the daytime and Oak Communications' subscription programs during the prime-time evening hours. No details on how much the service may cost were released. The Phoenix project is the first stage of a national expansion, Gwin said, adding that there are plans to operate subscription television in Philadelphia and Miami, by 1980.

SAN DIEGO Oak Industries Inc. announced Monday it will begin "over-the-air" subscription television service to Phoenix next July. The service will include regular programming during the day, while viewers would have to subscribe to the service to receive paid programming during evening hours. John P. Gwin, president of Oak Communications a locally based subsidiary of Oak Industries, said television station will be built in Phoenix to handle the STV programming.

The station will broadcast on UHF Channel 15, with the call letters KNXV, he said. New Television Corp. of Phoenix, Oak's minority P- 7 VOSA IS A lT6 A WITHDRAWAL CT fllfJDO MVSTICAL. A FROM THE WORLD EXERCISE WHiOl I FOR PHYSICAL I INVOLVES CEKTA'N I AND SPIRITUAL fll PHV5ICAL AMD ffi MENTAL DisoPLtNel ill who was out of town. Chinook, a 90-pound, 2'6-year-old German shepherd, was discovered missing when another officer went Friday to feed him and found the gate open at the home of officer Bill Stahl, the dog's handler.

B-6 "ffiffi' ffiffi0 The Arizona Republic guilty; judge clears record The chairman of the Hopi Indian tribe, who was arrested in September for soliciting an act of prostitution from an undercover police woman, has been allowed to plea guilty to a lesser charge and the record of the offense has been expunged from his record. Abbott Sekaquaptewa. was arrested at 22nd Street and Van Buren Sept. 19. Sekaquaptewa, 48, who lives in Oraibi on the Hopi Reservation, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $150, sources said.

His attorney, during a pre-trial conference before acting Municipal Court Chief Judge Alan Hammond last week, requested that the record immediately be expunged after the guilty plea, a process usually done six months or more after trial. Despite the protest of city prosecutors, Hammond granted the request for immediacy. "It is a standard procedure that after a plea of guilty to a first offense misdemeanor the defendant has the right to request the record be expunged," Hammond said. "It is within the prerogative of the court to expunge immediately on application by the defendant and because of the distance Mr. Sekaquaptew a lives from Phoenix that is what the court decided to do in this case," he said.

Last summer, Sekaquaptewa was elected to a new four-year term as tribal chairman. Holbrook to honor Babbitt sivearing-in Selling of Christmas tree permits ended HE'LL SE MUTT-- TJ ALL RIGHT N. (fn Here's A l7f as soon as (V 1 ROAD WEFIMDS RH. I Two city Parks Department employees, Alan Sage and Carlos Restepo, saw the dog running loose in Papago Park on Monday afternoon. Sgt.

Don Marshall, who retrieved the dog, said, "He was just sitting there in the truck and when I walked up to him, he jumped up and licked my face." Overwhelming public response has caused the annual sale of $1 Christmas tree cutting permits to be sold out in the shortest period ever, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Art Clinchy said Monday. Clinchy said a "stop order" has been put out to all J.C. Penney stores and to Forest Service offices to end the issuance of permit applications. the 25,400 tree-cutting permits are oversubscribed already, Clinchy said, and an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 permits are expected to be mailed in this week.

age of 1,845 permits a day while applications have poured in at an average of 2,500 per day. Trees on the Prescott National Forest were sold out three days after the sale opened and all the permits for 1 1,400 Douglas fir trees, one of the most popular types of Christmas trees, were sold out in eight days, Clinchy said. The cut-your-own tree sale began Nov. 13. The sale was widely anticipated, he said, with some callers asking for Christmas tree information as early as last July, Clinchy said.

The Forest Service has been processing an aver 'Holbrook cPhoenix Jan. 4 at the Elks Club. A community breakfast is planned for Jan. 5 at By JOHN SCHROEDER Northern Arizona Bureau HOLBROOK Four years ago, Bruce Babbitt, as the newly elected state attorney general, took his oath of office on the porch of the historic Blevins home in Holbrook. On Jan.

5, Babbitt will again be at the Blevins home to participate in a this time as Arizona's governor. Babbitt chose the Blevins site for the first swearing-in ceremony for two reasons: His roots are in northern Arizona and nearly a century ago, the home was the site of a famous gun battle between Sheirff Commodore Perry Owens and the Blevins gang. When he was sworn in as attorney general, Babbitt said he wanted the state to know he intended to fight crime with the same vigor as Owens. "Everybody is so pleased he's going to be here again," said La-Verne Brown, chairman of the pre-inaugural planning committee in Holbrook. Details still remain to beworked out, but Mrs.

Brown said Monday that Babbitt will be honored at a pre-inaugural ball the Blevins home. The breakfast, she said, will be hosted by Holbrook senior citizens, who have converted the Blevins home into a senior citizens center. Mrs. Brown said Babbitt promised during his gubernatorial campaign to return here for the ceremonies if he were elected and three conditions were met. The conditions were that the Holbrook High School band perform, that Judge Melvyn T.

Shelley of Navajo County Superior Court participate in the ceremonies, and that there be transportation to and from the Holbrook airport. The formal swearing-in ceremony will be at noon on Jan. 5 at the state Capitol, with an inaugural reception that evening at the Heard Museum. ft 1 trvJrNj' Uv: If Bond vote readied for Pima County United Press International I 1 I TUCSON Pima County supervisors agreed Monday to hold an $89 million capital-improve ments bond election Feb. 27.

It would be the largest ii I bohd issue county history. 4 mMrr AwaiTinQ you at ine rnoenix loo Vt V'V A COtk ClrAi fi. nn in Dnrw Dnrl The money is being sought for roads, streets, Bridges and dust-control projects. PI i 9 am to 5 pm including SurKlays holiciavs tji 1 I 1-71 4 0VM The supervisors also indicated they would place a proposal on the ballot to build a new county jail, but the amount sought will not be set until an architee tural study is completed next week. Earlier esti mates placed the jail bond issue at $20 million.

mi Presented in theoublic interest by H'Z The supervisors will finalize the bond questions Jan. 10. Proposed allocations include: $46 million for roads; $20 million for bridges; $15 million for dust control; $5 millio.i for countywide drainage controls, road widening and flood control; and $3 mil lion for flood control and road widening in the Ru thrauf Road area. Assessing the taxpayers' willingness to support the improvement package, Supervisor Conrad Joyner said the board must be "candid," and "priortize the. issues so people know what they are voting on." 7 missing hikers found Central Arizona Bureau FLORENCE Seven hikers an adult and six children were found Monday in the Supersition Mountains after a Tempe woman reported them missing Ancient village found in Idaho LEW1STON, Idaho (AP) The remains of an Indian village that Boise State University scientists have found six miles from here could be one of the oldest in the Northwest, according to Kenneth Ames, a university researcher.

Sunday night. Tim Warfield, 37; his five children, and a young guest were airlifted from the Weaver's Needle area at noon by an Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter. Warfield said his party, all of Tempe, got lost Sunday night because Forest Service trail markers were missing. He said he had instructed his wife to report the hikers missing if they did not return by 8 p.m. Sunday.

None of the children, ranging in ages from 8 to 15, were injured. 0 5c 1 4.