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PINAL. REPUBUU CITY 1 aiuuiiu ncpuulic Thursday, February 20, mfc Senate kills bill to repeal vehicle-sales tax Suspect is EtiDOecS af fter threatening officer, police say Key lawmaker fears measure would derail ballot-initiative drive By LAURIE ROBERTS Arizona Republic Staff In an unusual, last-minute move, the state Senate on Wednesday killed a bill designed to repeal a tax on private sales of used vehicles in mid-1988. The unexpected defeat came at the hands of the Senate's chief Democrat, Minority Leader Alfredo Gutierrez of Phoenix. Gutierrez, during Wednesday's final roll-call vote, warned that it was unclear whether the Legislature, by passing the bill, would be thwarting an initiative campaign that would let voters decide in SB 1075, which would make permanent the 55-mph speed limit It passed on a 23-7 vote. SB 1101, which would designate the Rev.

Dr. Martin Luther King birthday a state holiday and would combine into Presidents' Day the two holidays set aside for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The vote was 17-13. The defeated tax bill, as originally drafted, would have raised to 5 percent from 4 percent the tax on the sale of used cars, boats and airplanes. SB 1102 also would have blocked the initiative drive aimed at repealing the tax.

Sen. Jeff Hill, R-Tucson, the bill's sponsor, said he brought up the measure because he feared voters would repeal the tax if given the chance, not realizing that the revenues it would raise through mid-1988 were needed to build and operate prisons. Then last week, amid much public criticism, Hill backed away from his drive to stop the initiative and amended his bill to instead repeal the tax July. 1, 1988. Hill said he worded his delayed repeal amendment so that it would not affect the initiative.

Gutierrez, however, pointed out during Wednesday's vote that legislative staff attorneys were uncertain whether the bill would affect the initiative. Attorney General Bob Corbin has been asked for an opinion on the bill's effect. Until then, Gutierrez said, the bill should be defeated. Hill said that his amended bill went along with the public's apparent desire to repeal the tax. November whether they wanted to continue paying the 20-month-old tax.

The Republican-controlled Senate last week had tentatively approved Senate Bill 1102 after being assured by Republicans that it would not affect the initiative drive. Wednesday's defeat, on a 20-10 vote, was a surprise because bills rarely reach the floor for final' action unless the affirmative votes have been lined up. The measure, however, can be revived by simply tacking it onto another bill at any time during the In other action Wednesday, the Senate approved and sent to the House: Bill wasn't behind a car or anything like that" A fully loaded revolver was found with deBurlet, Hayes said, adding that Donahue would not be available to comment on the shooting. Donahue and six other officers staked out the apartment complex at 9:30 p.m. after receiving information that indicated deBurlet would show up there.

DeBurlet's address was listed as 10 N. Parsell the location of a motel, but police said they believed he was going to see an acquaintance at the apartment complex, Hayes said. Police received a call at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday that a man wearing a ski mask later said by police to have been deBurlet robbed a property-management company at 1136 E. Harmony, Suite 205." The owner of the management company, Trade Winds, who refused to give her name, said deBurlet was a former tenant of one of the properties managed by the company, but she refused to give any other details about deBurlet or the robbery.

At p.m., police received a call that a man matching deBur-let's description had held a woman at gunpoint while he used her telephone. The woman was not hurt. Police found a car belonging to deBurlet in the 1900 block of South Emerson, the area in which the woman lives. By DAVID CANNELLA Southeast Valley Bureau MESA A city policeman shot and killed a 29-year-old man who pointed a gun at the officer Tuesday night while running away, police said Wednesday. The bullet entered the man's back and exited through his chest, according to Mesa police Sgt.

Mike Hayes. Clifford Don deBurlet was dead at the scene, an apartment complex at 111 N. Gilbert Road. The shooting took place at 11 p.m. Police said they believe deBurlet had committed an armed robbery and a kidnapping in incidents earlier in the day.

He was on parole after serving time for a 1983 burglary conviction. Officer Pat Donahue, 29, a six-yrar member of the department, fired once from his semiautomatic when deBurlet, running from the policeman in the Orange Grove Apartment complex, turned a gun toward the officer, Hayes said Wednesday. Donahue was placed on administrative leave, and a partment investigation into the shooting was begun, standard procedure in any police shooting, Hayes said. The Maricopa County attorney's office also will review the shooting, Hayes said. "He (Donahue) said he felt threatened when the gun was pointed at him," Hayes said.

"He had no protection. He Continued from Bl Organized-labor representatives, Aowever, strongly objected to the proposal, calling it a return to the days of blacklisting. The compromise bill approved Wednesday would grant civil im cause of labor opposition. Calling it "a very serious problem that needs to be addressed," West said he hopes to extend the civil protections to other employers next year. The three bills will go to the full Senate, probably next week.

when they traded information about a job applicant's possible involvement in theft or embezzlement Sen. Tony West, R-Phoenix, called the compromise distasteful but acknowledged that the broader measure probably was doomed be munity 10 nnanciai insi.uuiions maamammmmmcaumm I Public Notice Public Notice DRAPERY and HI ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BEDSPREAD SALE Ready Made and Custom AN "i fOA W1URUDT EXTRA off uftrom with this ad at time of puichasstEip. 25-86 gal; and indicated that he would begin enforcing the law in September. Hotels can reap a profit of $340,200 annually if minibars are installed in 500 rooms, according to a promotional brochure passed out to lawmakers Wednesday. The measure dealing with employment references was brought by Arizona bankers who are concerned that they, through their silence when asked for references, are in effect passing around dishonest employees.

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