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REPUBLIC. CITY Retail sales top $9 billion in state for '77, a 14 rise the range of 3.5 percent were factors in the sales growth. There were no "lull periods" in retail trade in the state last year, the bank said in its monthly economic bulletin, Arizona Progress. January was the lowest month, with $668.75 million in statewide retail sales. December was the strongest month at $956,125 million, the bank report showed.

September reflected the greatest percentage increase, 25.4 percent to $772.16 million from the September 1976 level. October showed the slowest growth at 9.7 percent from a year earlier, to $739.9 million. Sales levels shrank in Santa Cruz Arizona retail outlets had $9.17 billion in sales in 1977,. more than $1.16 billion or 14.5 percent higher than in 1976. The growth in retail sales far out-Stripped the national pace of 10.3 percent in 1977, said an analysis by Valley National Bank of Arizona published Tuesday.

Retail sales in Arizona amounted to $3,897 per person last year, compared with the national average of $3,267. Arizona per capita retail sales increased by 10.4 percent in 1977, compared with a national increase of 9.2 percent. An inflation rate estimated at 7.6 percent in 1977 by one Maricopa County index, as well as population growth in County along the Arizona-Sonora der; the devaluation of the Mexican peso was the primary cause of a dip of 11.7 percent in. 1977 to $66.76 million from $75.59 million, the report showed. Navajo County retail sales jumped, 29.5 percent last year, reaching $205.66 million.

The peso devaluation and the depressed state of the copper Industry also held down retail sales growth in Tucson and Pima County, the report showed, with sales gaining by only 8.1 percent, to $1.59 billion. In Maricopa County, the increase was 16.7 percent, with retail sales for 1977 nearly $5.58 billion, the report indicated. Motor vehicle fuel sales, accounting for 9.3 percent of all retail sales, reached $861.13 million in 1977, a 10 percent increase from 1976. Restaurant sales, holding a 7.9 percent share of the total, rose by 16.5 percent, to $884.44 million. I 1) THE Arizona Republic Paul Dean Encounter with success began at Arcadia High Republic Pholo by John McDonouqh Snow iun 0 SECTION Page 1 March 8, 1978 sound stage and used nurses as extras at no pay per day.

The result was a mountain of cans containing a six-hour movie several yawns longer than "Gone With the Wind." The edited version was a tighter two hours and 15 minutes and good enough to earn a special showing at Phoenix Little Theater. The movie opened and closed in one night. No boffo headlines, Academy awards or instant Hollywood contracts were heaped upon Steve. But somebody liked the show well enough to invite this young man to Europe to photograph the vacation of a Phoenix family. All of this took place in 1964.

It would be standard to report that Steve switched interests and majors to business administration at Phoenix College, is selling real estate for Thirkhill and spends weekends cutting commercials for Cal Worthington. But it didn't pan out that way. Instead, Steve has become a man to be considered by all parents who cluck when their kids express dreams of becoming astronauts, police chiefs, Indy 500 winners, presidents and millionaire oilmen. Steve is being applauded by full name and in total acclaim as Steve Speilberg, director of "Jaws" and writer-director of "Close Encounters of the Tlurd Kind." PEANUTS delighted Steve's schoolboy crush on moviemaking was a close encounter of the first order. While other kids were necking in back seats at the Roundup Drive-In, Steve was absorbed in techniques on the screen.

He was turned on by science fiction while his fellow juniors at Arcadia High were turning for basketball. His young world was film reels and clapboards, not mag wheels or surfboards. Steve was 16 when he converted his bedroom into a makeshift office, cadged a portable typewriter, saved to invest in a movie camera, then sunk a summer into writing, producing and directing a home-brewed movie. He called it "Firelight," the story of a scientist student buddy Bob Robyn) and his wife (coed Beth Weber) who snare a blob of red and blue light, combination knuckle ball and death ray with the unsociable habit of disintegrating all it touches. Steve was all neck and pure brass.

He pestered the city and Trans World Srlines until they signed, folded and lowed this junior Sam Goldwyn to borrow a jet and shoot sequences at Phoenix-Sky Harbor International Airport. Then Steve aimed his viewfinder at a local electronics institute. He filmed in conference rooms. He shot footage in laboratories. A hospital was needed.

Steve and troupe trooped to Scotts-dale Baptist, turned one ward into a and Rachel Black, wrapped in plastic bags to protect her from the cold, delighted in sliding around in it. The only problem was the mid-seventies temperatures turned the snow into slush. Winter returned Tuesday to Beth El Can preschool In Glendale, but it didn't seem to want to stay for long. The two tons of snow were delivered to the school for little ones who hadn't seen it before, Executive aide for Bolin quits under Babbitt By BERNIE WYNN Republic Political Editor Gov. Bruce Babbitt accepted Tuesday the resignation of Ray Roles, executive assistant to former Gov.

Wesley Bolin. and immediately asked labor leaders to recommend a replacement. Roles said he joined the late governor's staff last October as a personal friend on a limited basis, Babbitt said. He said "it is time to move along," according to Babbitt. However, Babbitt has asked Bolin's main assistant, William P.

Reilly, a prominent Phoenix business executive, to remain "to give me advice and counsel." Reilly is expected to stay. In a move to balance this business influence in his fledgling administration, Babbitt has asked labor leaders to "give me a list of a half-dozen of their upcoming, good, intelligent men who have had a lot of labor battle scars to become a member of my staff." "I want my staff to be capable of representing the diverse interests of the-state," Babbitt explained. Roles, 50, owner of a mobile home park business, said he will help Babbitt during the transition period but he recognized that each new administration must have its own men. "I have enjoyed my work with Gov. Bolin," Roles said.

"And I am grateful to have been able to serve the state in the capacity I did." Babbitt said that Ronald Wamicke, 37, a Harvard Law School classmate cf his, will act as executive assistant temporarily. It was another busy day for Babbitt, who started with an 8 a.m. staff meeting. He met for 30 minutes with Sen. Dennis DeConcini, the brother of his probable primary opponent, Dino DeConcini.

They talked about the copper stockpiling proposal and air pollution and a little "politics." Did the senator attempt to pressure Babbitt not to run for governor this fall? "No, no one has pressured me," Bab-Conturaed on Page B-4 Being stranded by floods if jouVe a feisty 65 year Mesa is going to the dogs She said (hey had planned to camp for about a week, but were stranded for 10 days when the storm hit. Mrs. Dalke, who "always goes for javelina," didn't win a pig-hunting permit this year, Mrs. Watkins said. "But we decided to go up anyway.

She hikes and I hold down the camp." Being stranded did not frighten them. "We were warm and dry and comfortable," she said. "In fact when it happened, we laughed. We said what are we going to do for Easter?" Mrs. Watkins said she accepted" the helicopter ride out only because she was running out of blood pressure and heart pills.

Family and friends of the two, both of whom are members of the Prescott Women's Rifle and Rod Gub and avid outdoorswomen, notified authorities Tuesday "just to check up on them." ice are but pol By DAN McGQWAN MESA-Butch and Hans aren't your typical Mesa lawnforcers. They're not much good for a work, and neither one knows how to fire a revolver or read a suspect his rights. they work cheap, don't complain about long hours and have a pointed way of making bad guys toe the line: 4te pair are dogs blackish-brown, 2-year-old German shepherds and the city's fiiit police canines. can be hut old camper "Dorothy is just fine by herself," Mrs. Watkins said.

"She says she has enough food for a month. There is a very nice rancher near who said he'd come on horseback every few days and check on her." Mrs. Dalke has a wood stove in the tent for warmth and a two-bumer bu- tane stove for cooking, Mrs. Watkins said. She also has four magazines, the women already have read from cover to cover.

Mrs. Hartin said although they are not worried, her family plans to drive to the campsite as soon as the road is passable to bring her mother Mrs. Watkins had one regret. "I wish I had taken my she said. "By the time I left, we were reading the small print in those magazines." "radiant energy" was bleak.

Moray blamed the fiasco on one per-: son in particular. Just who the man worked for is one of the biggest mysteries of the Moray saga, Moray later claimed the man was a Communist agent. Moray's son John, who was 11 at the 1 time, said the man identified himself; as both a Secret Service agent and a Fourth in series Federal Bureau of Investigation, agent. He could produce credentials to support -J, either identity, John Moray said. When The Arizona Republic asked REA about the man, officials were adamant that he did not work for REA.

However, he turned up in Salt Lake City with the REA group, and REA officials acknowledged he had thing to do with investigating Moray's; device. Years later, Rep. Charles Hal-lcck, focused on the "radiant energy" project while discussing results of a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee investigation of REA. Continued on Page B-2 I DON'T WANT TO BE TOLI? THAT I HAVE TO U.S.

agency accused of sabotage in mystery of old energy device By GRANT E. SMITH Just davs before Japanese at- Moray was to debt; and the future of HAVE MADE AN APPOINTMENT WITH AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST SIR? WlCOUIPBESGWTINS ANP NOT EVEN KNOW IT, THAT CAN CAUSE EE FATISUE, ANP WEAR ZT2 MAKE HOU By ANN ESSKEEP While hundreds of flooded-out Arizo-nans huddled in high school gymnasiums last week, two hardy women in their 60s played cards, read magazines and "had great conversations" in tent in the middle of nowhere. Marjorie Watkins, 62, and Dorothv Dalke, 65, both of Prescott, were stranded in Bloody Basin norm of Phoenix when the only road to their campsite washed away last Thursday. But when a Department of Public Safety helicopter landed to lift them out Tuesday, Mrs. Dalke decided to stay.

"I wish she had come out, but that's my mother," said Mrs. Dalke's daughter, Cathy Hartin of Tempe. "She's very independent." Mrs. Watkins was flown to Prescott. 15ESIPE5, IF VOU WORE SLASSEOU MIGHT LOOK LIKE ELTON JOHN! these disclosures because i departmental guidelines have been formulated and internal.

regulations strength-, ened to provide the agent in the street a clearer understanding of what is required of him. "The results can be measured in terms of higher morale, better performance, less indecision and increased self-assurance." Webster was a judge with the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. He was appointed by President Carter and sworn in as director Feb.

24. He replaced Clarence Kelley, who retired 11 days earlier. A tacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, FBI to hire more minorities, director reveals You almost don't believe what they can be taught to do," said Robert Chamberlain, a 30-year-old patrolman who is being trained to handle one of the dogs. "They're going to save us a lot of time in search-warrant situations. A dog can find narcotics or a hidden suspect much faster than a man could." Assistant Chief Norman Arrington said the city will experiment with canine enforcers for about a year, then decide whether to expand the toothy force.

we'd like to have five dogs," he said. -The dogs, in training now, will start work in early May. 'It takesi a lot of patience and time to get to know these animals," Chamberlain said. "You've got to have a love for 'em or it's not going to work out for you." 'Chamberlain has adopted Hans into his family and is responsible for the dog's feeding and care. Patrolman Lance Lindsay has done the same with Butch.

Officer and dog are professionally wectfor better or worse, with the animal trained to respond only to his handler's command. Each dog will search buildings, detect narcotics, track criminals, find lost children and ride around in a specially built vehicle marked "Canine Car." According to Chamberlain, setting the dog on someone will be a last ditch method of getting compliance. "Using a dog will be a step before Continued on Page B-2 Rep. Thomas D. Winter, took the floor of the U.S.

House of Representatives to demand an investigation of Rural Electrification Administration. According to the Associated Press, Winter charged the RE A was "obstructing national defense as surely as a paid saboteur. "The true friends of farm electrification may as well face the fact, may as well realize that this federal agency has fallen into the hands of a gang of Communists, fellow-travelers and political second-story workers who do not hesitate to sabotage the national defense program in the interests of preservation of their political theories and perpetuation of their payrolls," charged Winter. T. Henry Moray could only mutter an "amen" and wish someone, had sounded the warning groner.

REA personnel had arrived In Salt Lake City in 1939 to investigate Moray's "radiant energy" device and determine the device's potential. By 1941, the device was smashed; By RICHARD MORIN The FBI plans to hire more minorities as special agents and will continue to key its investigative efforts on crimes "which impact most heavily on (he fiber and fabric of life in our country," FBI Director William Webster said here Tuesday. Among the bureau's priority targets: "Organized crime, white collar crime, foreign espionage (and) civil right investigations," Webster said. The newly confirmed FBI director made the comments in a speech to 300 members of the American College Trial Lawyers meeting at the Hyatt Regency. Webster said approximately 16 percent of the bureau's 19,000 employee are minorities, "the majority.

clerical positions." "I Intend to press for greater efforts to accelerate the pace of this increase without any compromise in profession; 1 standards. There are sound operational reasons for doing so, in addition to strengthening the bureau image of fairness and integrity," Webster said. The bureau employs 8,000 special agents. Recent investigations of wrongdoing within the FBI will strengthen the agency, lie said. "The men and women of the FBI have been the principal beneficiaries of s..