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RBYLIC FINAL THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Monday, December 2, 1985 Obituaries B5 J. Wm I Downright MADP Almost a decade after her brush with a drunken driver. Valley television personality Joni Heil-Brice still gets angry when people drive while intoxicated. But Heil-Brice hasn 't just gotten she has gotten involved with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, to try do something about the problem. B6.

3rd District' hopelfyDs hit tine streets for runoff Johnson: This is my second time through here' A barking dog nipped at Paul Johnson's heels as he stretched his long legs in a fast, walking pace along a winding hillside street in north-central Phoenix. Johnson's wife, Christa, was almost running to keep up before she stopped and tried to befriend the dog, reaching down to pat the animal on the head. "I couldn't have made it without her; she has walked with me every day," Paul Johnson said as he rang the doorbell of a home in the 1200 block of East Echo Lane and shoved his latest political-campaign flier into the hands of the woman who answered. Quickly, it became evident that Johnson had been getting help from another source accustomed to barking dogs in the. neighborhood.

"The mailman sold me; it wasn't Christa," Virginia Gray told Johnson as they stood in her doorway. "The mailman is on your side. He's working hard." Johnson grinned and started talking about the woman's fashionable home. He hadn't expected the remark. Although postal workers are federal employees andi are prohibited from active involvement in partisan elections, they can campaign for candidates in non-partisan races.

Johnson's personal, door-to-door cam-' paigning is credited with carrying him to a popular-vote victory over his opponent, Anne Lynch, in the city's Nov. 5 primary election. "By election time, I had knocked on the door of every one of the 33,000 homes in the district," he said. Although Johnson received a 350-vote plurality in the primary, his total of 49.71 percent of the ballots fell 17 votes short of the city-charter requirement that a winning candidate receive more than 50 percent Johnson, B5 These articles were written by Republic staffer Art Thomason. Tom Story Republic Paul Johnson meets a District 3 resident.

He follows up such contacts with post cards. Lynch: Teams of workers 'blitz an entire precinct' Anne Lynch stood in the cafeteria line at Sts. Simon Jude Elementary School, keeping an eye out for her daughter and a hand out to teachers and others old enough to vote. "He sure you write up a good report," Sister Mary Theresa, a faculty member, instructed a reporter in a thick Irish brogue after greeting Lynch. "We're studying Greece right now; we're studying the beginnings of democracy." Lynch grinned.

Her 11-year-old daughter, Caroline, one of Sister Mary Theresa's pupils, also has been getting a lesson in democracy on the home tront as one of the workers in Lynch's campaign for the Phoenix City Council. "I baby-sit my little sister a lot while iy mother is busy campaigning," Caroline said as she sat between her mother and her classmates in the cafeteria. "1 also answer the telephone and stuff envelopes." Anne Lynch said she needs all the help she can get if she is to overcome the '350-vote plurality of her opponent, Paul Johnson, in the Nov. 5 primary election and go oh to win their runoff contest Dec. 10.

At Sts. Simon Jude, Lynch was on friendly turf. She and her family attend the adjacent parish church. The school visit, she said, was primarily for a luncheon date with Caroline. And it worked in well with the morning schedule that had her campaigning door to door in the nearby Sunny High Precinct.

But, taking nothing for granted, Lynch walked out of the school cafeteria and strolled through the playground, looking Lynch, B5 Charles KrejcsiRepublic Anne Lynch talks to resident Gilbert Ek. She campaigns door to door four hours daily. PIBt II I Promoter touts mountain mecca as vacation spot for stargazers 5 MaiSfflki. I Alan Thurber Republic Columnist Wikieup Phoenix If Meteor Crater can pull 200,000 people off that road in a year, we can do at least that. 50 Miles Republic 1 V'- ilk By STEVE DANIELS Western Arizona Bureau WIKIEUP OK.

Let's try to put this thing in some kind of perspective. Thomas R. Kelly, a shaved -headed Kojak absent the Tootsie Roll Pop, is a former vacuum-cleaner salesman who doesn't like being called a pitchman. His mother, he tells an assembly of hick reporters over lunch, takes offense at the suggestion, however veiled, that her son may not be playing with a full deck. OK.

Let's take another look. Kelly has a plan to do what even the Diamond Bar, a place where you can spray-paint your name on the walls or ceiling, could not. The Phoenix businessman is about to put northwestern Arizona's Wik- ieup on the map. In a remote, nearly inaccessible corner of the Hualapai Mountains west of here, Kelly envisions the creation of an international-destination resort. "What the hell," you ask, "could possibly lure international tourists to this God-forsaken corner of the desert?" The draw? A proposed $40 million "observatory resort," a well, in Kelly's words, a kind of "scientific Disneyland." Kelly's "Observation Point" would be "a resort from which to observe the primitive forces of nature, formulate one's own questions about the universe and above all to have a satisfying human experience." Not your idea of the perfect three-day getaway? Then you are not among the highly educated, technologically curious 28 million Americans who Kelly figures make up the potential, clientele for a resort with astron-' omy as its focal point Consider, for a moment, these facts, he says.

Twenty million Americans, market research shows, now view 'Make it a says marathon man David Dozier of Dallas (that has a nice ring to it) will be running around here Saturday. His marketing firm, with seven offices in the Southwest, keeps him on the run. But that has nothing to do with his activities this weekend. On Saturday, he will compete in the Fiesta Bowl Marathon. Then he will catch the 3:45 flight to Dallas, try for a good night's sleep, and compete in the White Rock Marathon on Sunday.

A marathon, you may recall, is 26 miles, 285 yards. But two of them is not 52 miles, 570 yards. Two of them is insane. Most people cannot run a marathon. Most of those who can are unable to walk for the next three days.

If you suggested to one of those people after, say, 18 miles, that he or she would have to try again the next day, he or she would summon up one last ounce of energy and go for your throat. Not only will Dozier do back-to-back marathons over the weekend, he also will be at work Monday morning, having run a few easy miles first "to loosen up." Dozier, 46, is founder and president of which has an office on Camelback Road. He is also a nearly full-blooded Pueblo Indian. "Maybe the Indian blood gives me endurance," he said. "I was born on a reservation north of Santa Fe (N.M.), but we moved off when I was a child.

"1 started running about 15 years ago because I was out of shape. I had a potbelly, and I smoked." He started running speed drills and sprints, and got into distance running three years later. Since then, he has put in 45,700 miles, running almost every day. He has done 46 marathons, including five Bostons, one New York, and eight ullramarathons (usually 50 miles). And once before, in 1983, he did the Fiesta Bowl and White Rock races back to back.

He didn't do it last year because they were on the same day, at the same time. He doesn't do miracles. "It's a kick," he said of the double ordeal, "but it's hard as hell on Sunday. They let me walk around on Thurber, B4 1983. They spent $5.9 billion in Nevada.

Less than 50 miles from Kelly's proposed observatory site are the 'casinos of Laughlin, Nev. According Kelly's research, 2.9 million guests spend an estimated $1.4 billion there annually. The Laughlin figures may be exaggerated. This one is not: Nearly 22 million 'international tourists, who Kelly's research indicates would have a particularly strong interest in a project with astronomical overtones, spent nearly $14 billion in the United States in 1984. About 16 percent of those foreign visitors, mostly from Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, West Germany and France, chose as their destination what the U.S.

Travel and Tourism Administration defines as the "Frontier West" states. Don Wynegar, director of the Administration's research office, said the agency plans a Western seminar next year to help local tourism officials identify and target international markets and recommend ways to lure those potential customers to unexploited destina-' tions. Wynegar calls Kelly's Observa- Mecca, B4 scientific programming on the Public Broadcasting Service. The number of subscribers to scientific periodicals leaped to more than 24 million in 1984. There are 500 amateur-astronomy clubs in the United States.

Science-fiction films have nearly taken over the U.S. movie market In 1983, the National Science Foundation budgeted more than $67 million for astronomy, but existing U.S. observatories were unable to accommodate the scientific demand. The National Optical Astronomical Observatory on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, last year turned away three of every four astronomers who requested time on its telescopes. Ever since the United States entered the space race in the late 1950s, public interest in science and technology has been high.

Science, it is clear, has become a pop topic. As for the tourist end of this proposal, Kelly produces these statistics: In 1983, Arizona drew nearly 6.7 million tourists, and they spent more than $2.1 billion in the state. Las Vegas, a market from which Kelly expects to draw heavily, drew 12.3 million visitors in David Dozier has run 46 marathons, including five Bostons, one New York and eight ultramarathons. Swindler puts heart into cards, not into trial "MV CHRISTMAS PA6E The Arizona erand-iurv indict- high-stakes gambling at a California card casino a habit he discontinued last summer after giving the casino a $10,000 rubber check. "He (Dattilo) didn't look as though he could run a marathon, but he certainly didn't look like it was going to stop him from playing cards all night," said Marie Maietta.

credit manager of the established commercial checking accounts for one of his companies, World Wide Money Order, in 1982 at the Bank of Scottsdalc, a United Bank branch in Mesa and the Bank of Paradise Valley. Judge E.G. Noyes of Maricopa County Superior Court has denied a request by John Todd, an assistant state attorney general, that he order Dattilo's arrest and bring him to NM" Swindler, B5 By ALBERT J. SITTER Arizona Republic Staff Joe Dattilo, a convicted swindler, has convinced a Maricopa County Superior Court judge that the stress of a trial on bank-fraud charges he faces could be fatal because of a longstanding heart condition. But court records reveal that since Dattilo's indictment Aug.

22, 1984, in Arizona, the 57-year-old man has traveled the country and has spent many days and nights in. interview included in court records. The cashier's check given to the casino was drawn on the Pacific Security Bank, which ex-convict Dattilo claims he owns in Susupe on the South Pacific island of Saipan. The bank's name is not to be confused with Security Pacific Bank, a well-known California financial institution. Pacific Security Bank does not exist, according to the Federal Reserve Board.

ment accuses Dattilo of forgery and scheming to swindle the American Bank in Tempe out of $1 million. Court records include details of an investigation by the state attorney general's office, which alleges the bank plot was part of a massive check-kiting racket Dattilo has operated among banks in Arizona, California and the East Coast As part oftthe scheme, according to the investigative report, Dattilo 23 days till Christmas, California Commerce Club in Commerce City, in a transcript of an 1.