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FINAL" -r B2 The Arizona Republic Wednesday, February 10, 1988 AflSJBU COPY School-bond issues, overrides pass in districts across Valley Chandler attack linked to 'Real-Estate Rapist' 4. Agent assaulted while showing office said. The real-estate agent, a 28-year-old Tempe resident, told police she was in a leasing office in the Chandler industrial park when a man came in and said he needed space for a small shop. When she showed him an office, he pulled a knife and assaulted her, and her hand was cut as she tried to push him away, Summers said. After the assault, he drove away in a light-blue Toyota car, police said.

The woman described her attacker as white, pale-skinned, about 35 years old, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall, 165 to 175 pounds, with thinning black hair. He was wearing a long-sleeved white or blue button-down dress shirt, dark-blue wool dress pants, black shoes with decorative leather flaps and black socks. He also is probably right-handed because he held the knife in his School. Glendale Elementary School District voters approved 1,951 to 1,589 to extend a a $2.1 million budget override to maintain the district's educational programs. The district currently is spending budget-override money authorized in 1984, according to officials.

School districts are allowed to ask for a five-year override extension in the fourth year of an existing override. Residents in the one-school Wilson Elementary School District defeated a $241,201 budget override, 27-9. The school and district, at 3025 E. Fillmore has 730 pupils. In the Liberty Elementary School District, voters approved by a vote of 264-16 the construction of a $1.5 million elementary school, to be built with funds from American Continental Corp.

Residents in the Agua Fria Union High School District voted on a $15.9 million bond issue and a $385,000 budget override to fund increases in teaching salaries. Voters also were deciding on whether to authorize the governing board to sell, lease or trade 14 acres owned by the school district. As of 11 p.m., seven of the district's 12 polling places were reporting. The override was passing 653-574. No results were available on the other issues.

The bond issue, if passed, would allow for the construction of new facilities and remodeling the cafeteria at Agua Fria High School and for purchasing land for a future school. $126.6 million bond issue by a vote of 5,898 to 4,572. The bond authorization is the largest in the district's history and is a continuation of a $49.5 million bond issue passed' in 1986 to meet rapid growth in the northern portion of the district and to upgrade aging schools in the southern part of the district. The bond issue will be used to build three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school and a vocational-technical school and to buy land for seven school sites and equipment for existing and new schools and remodel existing schools. In the Madison Elementary School District, voters were deciding the fate of a $24.9 million bond issue and a $1,039 million budget override.

As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, five of six polling places in the district had counted ballots, and both propositions were passing overwhelmingly. The override, which would allow the district to exceed its budget by 10 percent, was passing by 1,518 to 750. It would prevent instructional-program cute. The override also would provide for a 2.5 percent salary increase for district employees.

The bond issue, which would help the district repair and remodel its six schools, was winning by 1,562 to 709. Fowler Elementary School District voters passed a $7 million bond package, 67-48. Proceeds from the bond issue will be used for construction of a school and an administrative-office complex, a land acquisition and expansion of Sunridge A $168 million bond issue, the largest in the history of Phoenix Union High School District, appeared to have passed narrowly Tuesday night. At 10 p.m., the vote was 3,776 to 3,416 in favor of the issue. In eight other Valley school districts, voters decided on financial and land-sale issues, including six bond issues, four budget overrides and a construction firm's offer to build a school.

Unofficial results from eight of the nine districts are as follows: PUHSD officials and a citizens group that worked toward passage of the bond package said the issue would pay for renovating and repairing the district's eight high schools and a vocational institute. The district has no plans to build any new schools with the issue. Bond money also would be used to purchase educational equipment, improve programs for handicapped students and consolidate the district's administrative and business operations, which are currently housed at two sites. Voters in the Mesa Public Schools approved by a vote of 6,484 to 2,404 a bond issue of nearly $157 million, the largest amount the district has requested. District officials say the proceeds from the bonds will be used over the next five years to build a new high school, three new junior high schools and 12 new elementary schools and to buy land and remodel existing schools.

The Mesa district, the state's largest district, has 60,000 pupils. In the Scottsdale Unified School District, voters approved a PET DOOR FOR YOUR PATIO DOOR GLASS AVAILABLE FOR FRENCH DOORS WALLS EXCLUSIVE DEALERS WEST PHOENIX 938-2461 Bonded Locksmith Phoenix 241-9118 Mesa, Scottsdale 241-9177 Bonded Locksmith SECURITY PET DOOR CALL FOR FREE INFO A real-estate agent who was sexually assaulted while showing office space to a man in Chandler is believed to be the latest victim of a suspected serial rapist, police said Tuesday. The woman said the face of her attacker matched that depicted in a police sketch of the "Real-Estate Rapist," described by his victims as well-dressed with a neatly trimmed beard and mustache. He is suspected of assaulting at least six real-estate agents in the Valley since March 1986. Chandler police Lt.

John Summers! said that the woman's hand was "severely cut" during the most recent attack, which occurred Monday at about 4:41 p.m. in an industrial park in the 3200 block of North Colorado Street. "This guy had blood on the left side of his shirt, so we're hoping a girlfriend or a friend saw him and will call us," Summers CHURCH steal anything and ignored expensive equipment such as computers and office machines, Nelson said. No damage was done to the church building at Seventh and Glendale avenues. "I have no notion that it is related to my appearance on the radio" Nelson said, "I don't know that it is not just a strange coincidence." But Barbara Blewster, one of the Mecham supporters who was a guest with Nelson on KTAR on Monday, said the vandalism was an attempt by the governor's opponents to discredit Mecham supporters.

"I know Culver Nelson did not attack his own church," Blewster said, "but I know that somebody did it to discredit us." Anthony J. Hilder, another member of the Mecham support group Citizens Against Organized Crime, said, "We have no way of knowing who did that." Blaming the "lunatic left" for "turning Arizona into the hate state," Hilder, who also was a guest on the KTAR broadcast Monday, This sketch shows what the rapist is believed to look like. right hand, Summers said. The rapist, who police believe may be responsible for assaults in Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Phoenix and possibly Tucson, typically shows up at an apartment complex or business complex, asks to see an apartment and then attacks the agent in the apartment or office. Police believe the rapist's last previous attack was Nov.

19 at a northwest Phoenix business park. controversial radio advertisements, which have not been accepted as paid advertising but have been broadcast on radio and television news and talk shows. Those listed include the Phoenix 40, a group of community leaders; The Arizona Republic; communists; sodomites; drug dealers; Democratic state Chairman Sam Goddard; and the Mafia. Hilder said that an opinion column by syndicated writer Hunter S. Thompson published by The Republic was responsible for vandalism at Mecham Pontiac, a shotgun blast fired at the governor's residence and the vandalism at Nelson's church.

"This article, which compared the governor to a pack rat, invited these types of attacks from the lunatic left," Hilder said. Vernon Bradley Jordan, 21, the son of the service manager at Mecham's Pontiac dealership, was arrested in connection with the shotgun blast and vandalism at the dealership, which occurred on Sunday morning. WE HA VE THE ULTIMA TE DIET LOSE 10-20-40-100 LBS. rc vi. i wit 1 1 vie i fctjc tv-A SPECIAL '189 "Weight Mate of the Montht" Cont by Demand 1-Low Price ALL PROGRAMS Continued from B1 said Nelson had invited the vandalism.

"The reverend has obviously chosen to associate himself and jump into bed with- these people," Hilder said. "That's right," said Blewster, who was interviewed with Hilder by telephone. "He didn't say anything when the governor was attacked." Blewster and Hilder compared the techniques used by Nelson and his supporters to those used by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. "It's a typical Hitlerian technique," Blewster said. "When he wanted to gain sympathy, he would destroy his own property." When informed of the statements made by Blewster and Hilder, Nelson said, "I find it difficult to respond to patterns of thought that are so out of touch with reality.

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