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The closing of the smelter was brought about because of the pollution that spewed from the smokestacks in the process of refining copper ore. According to a 1984 congressional study, the Douglas smelter was the largest uncontrolled source of air pollution in the Western United States. Rather than spend millions of dollars for air-pollution-control equipment, Phelps Dodge officials chose to close the smelter. "It's just a bunch of B.S.," laid-off smelter worker Arnold I Ybarra, 31, said of the loud and I long complaining about the smelter's pollution by several environmental groups. Those groups, the EPA and Babbitt "should have kept quiet" about the smelter, allowing it to continue operation and the workers to keep their jobs, said Ybarra, a Douglas native.

Now, Ybarra said, he probably will have to go to Tucson to find a job, one that he is sure will pay far less than the $12.98 per hour he made at the smelter. rayMNviryvinywld U-kfk without them, we might have settled the strike." Many in Douglas said "good riddance" to Phelps Dodge despite its annual $10 million payroll, which the mayor said made up 25 percent of the city's economic base. "I'm thrilled to death that the smelter is closed," said Art Ver-dugo, 72, a longtime Douglas businessman. Verdugo said the company for years discriminated against Hispan-ics who made up a substantial part of the smelter's work force. Two retired smelter workers, both Hispar.icq in their 70s who asked that they not be indentified, said that when they began work at the smelter in the 1930s, there were separate changing rooms for Anglos and Hispanics and that there was a much lower pay scale for Hispanics.

That did not change until the union organized the smelter workers in the late 1930s, they said. The mayor said that although the closing of the smelter is "a hard economic pill to swallow," he is sure that new light industry, tourism, retirees and a new prison complex near Douglas will keep the city going and possibly thriving. "Now," Williams said, "we start a new chapter in Douglas, and I look at it with enthusiasm." Thursday for Ybarra and the other laid-off workers from union members who went on a long and bitter strike against Phelps Dodge in 1983 and, in the process, lost their jobs. The strike polarized the city, even families, into strikers and "scabs," referring to those who crossed the union picket lines and new workers who took the strikers' jobs. Tim Hubach, 35, who acknowl edged being one who crossed the lines, recalled the verbal and physical abuse he took from strikers and their families when he came to Douglas from Los Angeles in 1983 to work at the smelter.

"It was hard even buying groceries," Hubach said. Frank Cruz, ex-president of the now-defunct United Steelworkers local that went on strike in Douglas, said that although feelings still are intense between the striker and non-striker factions, the closing of the smelter eventually should heal the wounds. Cruz, now part of a Cochise Community College program to help those out of work learn new skills, said he has mixed emotions about those laid off by the smelter's closing. "I feel for them in the sense they will have to struggle for a while," he said. "But still, yeah, there is this feeling they took my job, and JANUARY SAVINGS! the state will not be fined the maximum amount because Arizona officials convinced federal officials that they are trying to get motorists to comply.

Miller, who previously has supported increasing the speed limit on rural interstates, said the latest findings will cause him to speak out even stronger on the issue. "I think it's essential that we continue to have the 55 speed limit on the state highways or we would lose all of our federal highway funds," he said. "But I think it's important for all of us to express our desire for a change in the federal law pertaining to the interstates so that we won't have any problems with our federal highway funding." Miller said the state receives about $50 million a year for non-interstate highways. The federal Department of Transportation can withhold up to 10 percent of those funds annually if the majority of motorists exceed the speed limit He said that he believes that federal legislation increasing the speed limit on rural interstates has a good chance of passing Congress thisyear. our "HAPPY TIME generous assortment of fresh, cut flowers R(o)(o) cash carry special OPEN SUNDAYS It LJ bunch -7; But there was little sympathy 391-0444 931-3836 894-2341 584-4206 8969 E.

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The Mesa Public Schools is requiring teachers to attend a daylong workshop that only coincidentally fell on Monday, the same day as the federal observance of King's birthday. Mecham's order rescinding the King holiday was not lost on 11-year-old Sean Mellor, even though the fifth-grader at Salk school will have Monday off. "We would have had a holiday, but because of our new governor, Ev, he took it away," Sean said. Pupils in Sauerbrun's class discussed and then voted on the King-holiday issue the day after Mecham canceled it The Mesa fifth-graders decided, by a 2-1 ratio, that there should be a state holiday in King's honor, Sauerbrun said. The chance to honor- King's accomplishments motivated many of the yes votes, Sauerbrun said.

Others were swayed for more practical reasons. "They think it's neat because they get a day off," Sauerbrun said. "That's coming from the gut level." Pupils voting against the holiday said that government officials could get carried away if they established a holiday for every great American. "The question was: Where do we draw the line?" Sauerbrun said. "How do you decide when someone should have a day off in their honor?" The state-holiday issue also surfaced during the assembly at Martin Luther King Jr.

school. The closing act of a skit on King's life featured two girls, one complaining, the other consoling. "I can't believe it, I just can't believe it," said Jaylynn Smith, a third-grader, as she paced around in circles. "Do you know this man Evan Mecham? He's brought sadness and grief to our state and other states. "Didn't you hear what he did?" she asked her friend, fourth-grader Erika Warren.

"He rescinded the state holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, January 12." Smith kept moping as Erika stepped forward to tell her friend a thing or two. "I'm glad Martin Luther King Jr. isn't here to see you," Erika said, adding that King taught people to fight for what they believe in, not to despair. "He taught us that we shall overcome." As Erika said this, a line of pupils bearing signs proclaiming "We shall overcome" paraded across the stage.

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Although King's birthday was celebrated in several locations Thursday, most of the public demonstrations are scheduled for Monday, the day former Gov. Bruce Babbitt had designated as a state King holiday. Mecham rescinded' the holiday this week, saying he feels Babbitt acted illegally in creating it. Neither Salk school nor Martin Luther King Jr. school will have classes Monday, but for different reasons.

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