Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 14

REP(BLC the Arizona Republic, Wednesday, February 6, 1995, M1 OA' XL Southwest Valley roadway endorsed The Phoenix City Council recommends a 59th Avenue-Pecos Road route for a freeway loop in the southwest Valley. B2. hi IKS fcatfrii attain i i jh ill irirnn i tjrpiiniTmr ir mrrr i $340 million development is approved 775-room resort, 708 homes are planned in N. Scottsdale By DEE MICHAELIS Northeast Valley Bureau SCOTTSDALE Desert Reserve, a $340 million recreational and residential development including what would be one of the biggest resorts in the Valley, was approved unanimously Tuesday by the City Council. Plans call for a 775-room resort and 708 homes ranging from small residences, such as casitas, to estates on IVi-acre lots.

Desert Reserve will be built on 590 acres on the southwestern corner of Scottsdale Road and the Carefree Highway, just south of Carefree. City Councilwoman Jean Black called it "one of the best plans I have seen for a long time." The Planning Commission late last month unanimously recommended approval. The developer of the project is Sandpiper Cos. Inc. of Scottsdale.

Sandpiper President Jay Berk said the project will take about 10 years to complete. Included in the plans are a 500-room lodge, 275 hotel casitas, 708 homes, 30 tennis courts, a health spa and a convention center. The 275 hotel casitas will be used primarily as lodging for participants in a "longevity center" or weight-reduction facility, Berk said. Attorney Grady Gammage representing Sandpiper, said construction probably will not begin for about two years. Berk said a management company will be hired to run the resort.

City Councilwoman Diane Cusack said she was concerned about the size of the resort but later withdrew her objections after Gammage said the resort would be built in stages. "While it's a lot of rooms," Gammage said, "they're not going to be there all at once, and they're going to be spread out over a lot of acres." Resort, B3 Peter Schwepker Republic Snoiv patrol Pamela Schnitkey of Phoenix carefully picks her, photographs of the rare snowfall below 4,000 feet. Flagstaff, mercury readings went from a low of 21 way across Red Rock Crossing south of Sedona. Temperatures rose quickly throughout the state below zero to a high of 37 above Tuesday. Temp-She and her husband, Richard, were out taking Tuesday, with Sedona reaching a high of 41.

In 'eratures are expected to rise to normal Thursday. 44 nabbed in Dirty Dozen bid to corner 'speed' sales About $150,000 in cash, several weapons, paraphernalia for a methamphetamine laboratory and substances believed to be cocaine and methamphetamine were seized during the arrests, authorities said. McNamee said he believes the people who were charged were involved in a major speed ring and that their arrests should significantly reduce the supply of the drug in the state. By SUSAN LEONARD Arizona Republic Staff Forty-four people were arrested on federal charges Tuesday after a five-month drug investigation in which authorities learned that the Dirty Dozen motorcycle club planned to take over the illegal sale of methamphetamine in the state. Several of the people arrested are believed to be leaders in the Arizona Dirty Dozen motorcycle attorney, Phoenix police, the FBI and eight other federal and local agencies.

The arrests began at 7 a.m. Tuesday with 250 officers from several agencies participating, McNamee said. All but two of the arrests were made in Arizona. Douglas Chester Schultz, 31, who is identified in federal court records as the head of the Hell's Angel's chapter in San Diego and a supplier 'Speed', Panel to weigh liability of delinquents' parents Alan Thurber Republic Columnist By KEVEN ANN WILLEY Arizona Republic Staff Noting that some adolescents "hold their parents in a state of fear," Arizona legislators were reluctant Tuesday to endorse a bill that would increase parents' liability for their children's actions. Currently, parents can be held liable for no more than $2,500 of damage caused by their children.

House Bill 2119, sponsored by Rep. Gary Giordano, would remove that limit and make parents liable for whatever figure was established in court. "The purpose of this bill is to make parents responsible for their irl fought dismally' in assault Slain by someone larger, trial is told By ALAN ARIAV Arizona Republic Staff Christy Ann Fornoff put up little resistance when she was attacked and asphyxiated, apparently by a person larger than she was, Maricopa County's medical examiner testified Tuesday in Donald Edward Beaty's murder trial. Also Tuesday, a Tempe police officer who looked for Fornoff on the night she disappeared testified that Beaty helped search and took him to four vacant apartments but not his own that night. Beaty was a maintenance man at the Tempe apartment complex where Fornoff body was found.

"She died as a result of asphyxiation due to smothering," said Dr. Heinz Karnitsch-nig, the seventh witness in the Maricopa County Superior Court trial. Asked by Deputy County Attorney Gregg Thurston if she put up a fight, the medical examiner replied, "There may have been a minimal amount." Karnitschnig testified that in a struggle between a small person and someone much larger, the smaller individual typically puts up little or no resistance. "I find nothing to indicate a protracted kind of fight," he said. Beaty, 29, is charged with raping and killing Fornoff, a 13-year-old Phoenix Gazette carrier who disappeared May 9' and was found dead two days later behind a trash bin at Rock Point, the Tempe apartment complex where Beaty lived and worked.

Assault, B4 Ralph Milstead, head of the state Department of Public Safety, said after the news conference that the investigation and arrests will deal "a staggering blow to motorcyle gangs in Arizona." "They are a continuing criminal enterprise involved in a variety of activities," Milstead said. "Hopefully, we've slowed them down." DPS officers were involved in the investigation along with the U.S. Ben Minturn does "lymph gland club, and one of the people is the head of the Hell's Angels in San Diego, according to U.S. District Court records in Phoenix. Those arrested are among 57 individuals who have been charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, a stimulant more commonly known as "speed," U.S.

Attorney Stephen M. McNamee said at a news conference called Tuesday to announce the arrests. children," the New River Republican told the House Government Operations Committee. "This, ($2,500) is clearly an arbitrary limit on what damages a person can collect, and it frequently leaves the victim uncompensated." After nearly an hour of testimony on the measure, committee Chairwoman Jane Hull, R-Phoenix, assigned the bill to a subcommittee headed by Rep. Bob Denny, R-Litchfield Park.

Denny's panel is expected to hear the bill this week and prepare a recommendation to the full House committee. Giordano said few people go to Liability, B7 Agricultural interests have been battling budget cutters for years in an effort to save the inspection' stations at the state's borders. They consider the facilities the first line of defense against unwanted and often dangerous pests hiding in fruit, vegetables and seed. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee has recommended closing the stations at Douglas, which borders Mexico to the southeast, and at Cameron, north of Flagstaff on U.S. 89.

It wants to shift six of the 11 people working at these facilities to a station at Topock on Interstate 40 ut the California border. This would produce a net -Close, B6 Recommendation to shut 2 'bug stations' opposed Octogenarian wants space Ben Minturn wants to be an astronaut. He's in good shape, he said, and he was a pilot during the war. "If they're going to take schoolteachers and scientists and congressmen up in the space shuttle," he said, "my group should be represented, too." His group is the older generation. Minturn is 88.

The war he was a pilot in was World War I. His flying career ended shortly thereafter. "When I came back from France, I bought a surplus Jenny and did, some barnstorming in Kansas," he said. Minturn stormed one barn too literally flying right into it and shearing off the wings. He walked away from the crash and from aviation.

Today, he's just your average 88-year-old, going to the office before 7 o'clock every morning, working out at the gym each afternoon. Each morning, and each evening, he bounces a few hundred times on his "rebounder," a mini-trampoline. Thurber, B7 By DON HARRIS Arizona Republic Staff A proposal to squash two so-called bug stations once again figures to stir up a hornet's nest at the state legislature. At a budget hearing Tuesday for the state Commission of Agriculture and Horticulture, Rep. Pat Wright, R-Glendale, made it clear she will do what she can to save the stations at Douglas and Cameron.

When Sen. John Mawhinney, R-Tucson, a perennial opponent of the bug-inspection stations, heard about that, he groaned. "Maybe we ought to go with no stations at all," Mawhinney said, overstating his intentions. Tim RogersRepublic therapy" on his minitrampoline. Reagan budget could hurt Navajo relocation program, commission director fears move onto the currently undeveloped ranch lands.

The legislation mandating the controversial relocation of 2,500 mostly Navajo families requires there be reasonable community facilities and services for the relocatees. Goodrich said the Chambers area is unable to absorb the additional growth without more facilities and services. The relocation act provides for the acquis'tion of BuZRI proposed for the development of the ranches being acquired now," Goodrich said. "This could have a serious effect on our ability to complete relocation in a timely and humane manner." The commission has acquired the Wallace Ranch and is in the process of acquiring additional ranches near Chambers as new homesites for up to 425 Navajo families. The funds were requested to establish roads, water and schools for the relocatees who will former Joint Use Area that was given to the Hopi Tribe.

Stephen G. Goodrich, executive director of the. relocation commission, said Reagan has trimmed thet commission's proposed budget by about $500,000 and did not include funds sought to develop the new lands. The commission had requested $38 million over a five-year period for development, TTie Arizona Repub-lic has learned. "The biggest problem'is there are no new funds.

By JOHN SCHROEDER Northern Arizona Bureau FLAGSTAFF President Reagan's budget plan could have "a serious impact" on the Navajo relocation program because it does not provide funds to develop new lands for relocatees, the executive director of the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission said Tuesday. The commissir is under a 1986 deadline to remove all remaining Natjo families from the portion of the im mm m-mt.