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BEST AVAILABLE copy REPUBLIC Monday. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Close-ups Obituaries Hutton Leisure Movies TVRadio Psychologist Annabelle Netson-Burford focuses on the "distractible child, the youngster unable to pay attention in class and to filter out irrelevant sights and sounds. B5. Jit Ju B4 B5 11 B10 I Dj Robber kills man in motel Victim is shot down as he pulls out wallet By ALAN ARIAV Arizona Republic Staff A 45-year-old Prescott man was shot to death by a robber in a downtown Phoenix motel room Saturday night, apparently as he was pulling out his wallet to hand it over. "He pointed a gun at my husband and said, 'Give me your Sarah Smith said.

"My husband said, but he didn't have a chance to pull out his wallet." Police confirmed that John A. Smith, a lifelong resident of Yavapai County, was shot shortly after 1 1 p.m. by a man who barged into a room at the Travelodge, 965 E. Van Buren St. Smith, who was shot in the chest, was dead at the scene.

The robber and a female accomplice grabbed the wallet and other items and fled. Sgt. Tony Kruczynski said police had no suspects as of Sunday night. "The only thing I know is that my husband is with the Lord right now," Sarah Smith, 41, said from her Prescott home. She said her husband had come to Phoenix to meet her at Sky Harbor Airport after she had returned Saturday evening from a two-week trip visiting relatives in St.

Petersburg, Fla. She said she and her husband checked into the motel because they had planned to shop for a car Sunday in Phoenix. They were in the motel room about 30 minutes when a woman knocked on their door but said she had the wrong room, Smith said. The same woman knocked again a little later, and a man wearing a beanie forced his way into the room behind her, Smith said. Smith told police that the man was about 28 and the woman about 25.

"I pray that they get picked up and their souls will be saved," Sarah Smith said. She said her husband had lived Robber, B3 Michael Moisler Republic Gov. Bruce Babbitt is applauded after signing a proclamation that declares the third Monday in January a state holiday in honor of the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for King that has served a predominantly black congregation since 1905.

The crowd of 750 people broke into applause as Babbitt signed the proclamation. He cautioned them, however, to be prepared for a fight. On May 9, the Arizona Legislature defeated by one vote a bill to make King's birthday a state holiday. "If you protect, cherish and fight for this holiday, they're not going to take it away from you," Babbitt said. Asked later whether he expects a battle in the next legislative session over the proclamation, he said, "We couldn't pass the Ten Commandments without a fight." Some legislative leaders have opposed Babbitt's move to establish a King holiday by proclamation.

State Rep. Art Hamilton, a Phoenix Democrat who has been the main proponent of a King holiday, warned the crowd that "this is not the end of the battle it is only the beginning." Hamilton stood beside Babbitt as the governor issued an executive order establishing the holiday. It was Hamilton who went to him after the Legislature defeated the King bill, Babbitt told the congregation. "I said, 'What are we going to Babbitt said. "He said, 'Why don't you sign a proclamation" By JOHN WINTERS Arizona Republic Staff Gov.

Bruce Babbitt, telling a church congregation that "we're' going to make a little history today," declared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King birthday a state holiday. To announce the holiday, which will be celebrated the third Monday of each January, Babbitt chose the First Institutional Baptist Church, a building at 1141 E. Jefferson St.

making a holiday for Martin Luther "I thought for about 10 seconds" before deciding to sign one, he said. Babbitt said the Legislature has stated, in effect, that "Martin Luther King may be a hero to the black people, but we don't believe he's a hero for all the people. "I heard the Legislature standing up to say, 'Arizona is not ready to honor Martin Luther King Holiday, B3 City manager's proposed budget Proposed general-fund revenues Carryover from 85-86 (10) zz? 1 Even local architects are becoming involved in anti-terrorism efforts scju2f Property tax (16) Total budget revenues ($780 million) Other revenue (10) (Vehicle-license tax, courtdnes) Carryover from 85-86 (8) Business-license i on bu tax (2) Streets and User fees (4) transit (10) (highway-user and lottery funds) bales and utility State income 46) itax (12) General (44) (Sales and property taxes) ($377 million) Alan Thurber Republic Columnist Proposed general-fund expenditures Police (28) Enterprise (32) Civic Plaza, waste water sanitation, aviation, General Jk government (14) (selt-supported by fees) (Council and manager, engineering, personnel Fire (14) finance and planning) Contingency (3) All other (6) Streets and (Senior centers, courts transit (14) and building satety) Federal (6) Debt service (11) Parks and library (10) By DEBORAH SHANAHAN Arizona Republic Staff Phoenix City Council members joke about the pressure they're under in trying to do what, for most of them, is a first: figure out how to bring an out-of-whack budget into balance without angering any constituents. District 3 Councilman Paul Johnson, the nevest member, said he's keeping two stacks of don't-raise-taxes and don't-cut-services letters and probably will just go along with the tallest stack when the council takes a vote next month on the 1986-87 budget. He was kidding.

District 2 Councilman Duane Pell said, "Maybe we should put tollgates at all the entrances of the city and, when people drive by, they could toss a quarter in." He was kidding, too. The occasional strained smile hides what's really going on: Residents attending district forums and public hearings say they want more from the city more police patrolling the neighborhoods, more streets repaired and longer library and pool hours. Meanwhile, the business community has rallied its troops and is poised to declare war over City Manager Marvin Andrews' key budget-balancing proposal: an annual business-license tax. This is against a backdrop of reports from citizens committees and hired consultants telling the Council, B2 Terrorism is generally perceived as something that happens in distant airports, or in such trouble spots as Northern Ireland or the Middle East. But the threat of terrorism, or more accurately, sabotage, is being taken seriously in the Phoenix area.

Last week, three power lines connected to the Palo Verde nuclear power plant were sabotaged. The threat has become a real factor in the design specifications of high-tech industrial buildings, particularly those involved in space or defense technology. "One of the design problems is to avoid a sterile, impersonal look in a highly secure production center," said Jack Peterson, head of a Scottsdale architectural firm and a professor of architecture at Arizona State University. "We don't want the building to look like a fortress." Peterson's firm designed the $19.5 million Sperry Space Systems facility nearing completion at 59th Avenue and Union Hills Road in Glendale. It's a rather plain complex, not all that unlike other modern facilities.

Many of the differences are unseen, or at least unnoticed. There's the parklike area around the buildings, for example. It will be prettier that way, sure. It will also be more secure; you don't sneak up on a complex like that. "The buildings have an inward look," said Peterson, "surrounding Eric BakerRepublic Tax urged to help Phoenix services a landscaped courtyard.

The largest has its own atrium. Most of the windows face the courtyard or atrium. Entrances are limited and well-secured." Sperry is also "crash-proof." Anyone with a strong desire to smash a truck through walls would find steps, concrete planters, rows of trees and dteel arches in the way, rather neatly disguised as architectural features. Strange precautions? Is anti-terrorism becoming an architectural fad, a little like the fallout shelters of a generation ago? "I think that's partially true," said Peterson. "Architecture has a limited attention span.

It gets excited about the event of the "moment. Just now it is reacting to national nervousness. "But that doesn't mean that terrorism isn't a real danger, or that it will go away. However deplorable, it has proved to be an effective vehicle to create attention, and it Thurber, B3 library and pool hours would be cut, if no new revenue source were found. The proposed operating and capital budget for 1986-87 is $779.8 million, up 8.8 percent from the current $716.9 million budget.

Operating funds make up about 70 percent of the budget; the remainder is taken up by capital expenses and debt service. Most of the new employees in Andrews' proposal would go to the Police and Fire departments. The increase would bring the number of city employees to 10,065. The majority of the additional i police officers would be used to beef up patrols in each of the six precincts, strengthening the assaults and sex-crimes, homicide and traffic details. Additional Fire De partment positions would be con-' centrated in the 911 emergency-dispatch system.

Andrews' proposed personnel increases in the Water and Wastewater Department are slotted for waterline repair and expansion of the water-theft program, among other areas. The bulk of the new Tax, B2 By DEE MICHAELIS Arizona Republic Staff Phoenix could beef up staffing in key city services next year instead of laying off a projected 200 workers if a new business tax proposed by City Manager Marvin Andrews were passed. Andrews unveiled a proposed city budget last week based on passage of the tax calling for more than 100 new employees and less-severe cuts in service than originally projected. In March, Andrews predicted that 200 city employees could lose their jobs, and on refuge near Sasabe is contained; quail habitats feared destroyed the forestry division, said 125 firefighters, including two crews from Arizona prisons, were fighting the blaze Sunday. He said the effort was being hampered by dust and heat.

"The dust devils pick up embers and throw them into unburned areas," he said. Brown id the fire has caused The fire, reported Thursday afternoon near Arizona 286, northeast of the border town of Sasabe, charred 10,390 acres, said Dale Brown, a spokesman for the forestry division of the state Land Department. Sasabe is about 40 miles west of Nogales. Abc 3,1 10 acres were blackened on the Buenos Aires refuge, which was established in August to restore populations of the masked bob- white quail. It also is home to several species of waterfowl, white-tailed and mule deer, javelina and "unique birdlife" in creek and river areas, Dobrott said.

Because it has been a fast-moving fir, Dobrott said, some animals have perished, but the greatest danger is to their habitat. Shrub cover needed by the masked bob-white quail has been "severely damaged," he said. Brown said the fire scorched 7,240 acres of state land and 40 acres of land in Coronado National Forest. Pat Cijyicione, a dispatcher for $10,000 damage and it has cost about $120,000 to contain it. the fire should be put out by late this morning, he said.

Brown said he believes the fire, "was man-caused because we didn't have any natural-lire starts." "We didn't have lightning out in that area," he added. Republic Staff Associated Press SASABE A 4-day-old fire that had burned out of control on the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge, west of Nogales on the Mexican border, was contained Sunday evening. The fire has damaged several prime wildlife habitats in the refuge, said Steve obrott, acting rejuge manager. rf it.