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MME COPY The Arizona Republic SECTION CLASSIFIEDB4 0BITUARIESB5 FRIDAY OCTOBER 5, 1990 clash on school fends Hopeful Democrats leave voters no choice ELECTION '90; Governor's Race JOSEPH'S COLUMN: Stand on issues remain a mystery, D20 Goddard puts $4 billion tag on Fife's plan By Mary Jo Pitzl and Martin Van Der Werf The Arizona Republic Democrat Terry Goddard, in a televised debate Thursday night, said education reform won't come free and charged that opponent Fife Symington's education plan, despite his claim of no increased expense, would cost nearly $4 billion in additional funds over 10 years. But Republican candidate Symington fall calls for an additional $100 a pupil jr for each of the next 10 years at a total estimated cost of $5.8 billion. 1 Symington said that it is erroneous to link increased spending to improved 1 schooling and that Arizona's experience 4i has shown that more money does not translate into better schools. Before a crowd of about 400 at the Central High School auditorium in Phoenix, the two gubernatorial candidates also traded accusations about each other's positions on a variety of issues. Symington decried the "Goddard straddle" on water transfers from rural to urban areas, and Goddard labeled his GOP opponent's shifting political allegiances the "Symington shuffle." But it was education that brought the biggest exchange between the two candidates vying for voter support in the Nov.

6 general election. Goddard supports the Arizona Citizens for Education initiative, but Symington pilloried the plan as a massive tax burden on an already fiscally troubled state and said the citizens group's supporters wrongly equate the spending proposal with educational reform. Goddard described Arizona's schools as in a "crisis" and said Symington is deluding himself if he thinks education reform can come at no increased cost. "I think it's accurate to say that education in Arizona is going to cost See GODDARD pageB2 Democracy is a bold and ingenious system, considered by some former military men in the Third World to be an immensely efficient form of government so long as you eliminate the middleman: the voter. In this country, unfortunately, the same liberal do-gooders who assumed control of the television networks so as to provide TV time for Alan Alda and Phil Donahue have effectively eliminated our said later that Goddard's figures "are not only wrong, they're absurd." Symington has pointed to Goddard's support for the Arizona Citizens for Education initiative as an example of Goddard's "tax and spend" philosophy.

The measure to be decided by voters this iinnwi'i-ii-nr-wwTWn i wiihw nun mm nw) uniii iwnnwnwiiiiiii i I i wwomwwmjt most fundamental, most effective notion of democracy, a philosophy best described by the motto, "One man. One vote. One bullet." In these desperate times, however, it is heartening to know that not all Americans have abandoned the fight. Here in Arizona, the Democratic Party is taking a stand. It is proving that the same objectives achieved in some countries by a couple of heavily armed army corporals can be achieved in this state by Democrats is 1 i Poll: Hike children's services Public said to seek leaders on issue E.J.

MONTIRI Republic Columnist armed only with a couple of well-greased, fully loaded lawyers. Just last week, for example, the Democrats managed to re-elect state Sen. Carolyn Walker. That's right. She's in.

The election was decided -4 Mill more than a month before anyone voted, simply by making sure that only one name will appear on the general-election ballot for the Senate race in District 23. That name is Carolyn Walker. After studying the results of numerous public-opinion polls, political experts have concluded that when only one candidate's name is printed on a ballot, that candidate most likely will win. The exception to this rule, of course, beiitg Dan Quayle. Tom StoryThe Arizona Republic Ray Longbotham (second from right) of Sun World Printing shows Victor Skrylyov (left), Sergei Orlov and Irina Bogat around the plant 'shall Soviet ioi hsm it By Peter Aleshire The Arizona Republic About three-fourths of Arizonans believe not enough is being done to help children, and they are more likely to support a candidate who promises to increase services for children even if it means raising taxes, according to an opinion poll.

"If we don't do something about what's happening with our children, we'll bankrupt the future," said Carol Kamin, executive director of the Children's Action Alliance. The alliance, a coalition of business, social-service and child-advocate organizations that is beginning a campaign to emphasize children's issues, commissioned the statewide phone poll of 618 Arizonans in August. "People are beginning to realize that it makes more sense to pay for prenatal care than for intensive-care nurseries, to pay for Head Start than for prisons, to vaccinate kids than to hospitalize them when they get measles," Kamin said. According to the poll, which had a margin of error of about 4 percent, from two-thirds to three-quarters of Arizonans believe that the number of children living in poverty is increasing; that spending money on children will save money in the long run; that the state should spend more money on education; that the state government should guarantee all children adequate medical services and protection from abuse and neglect; and that the government should spend more on poor children. Seventy-one percent support increased government spending for children, compared with 59 percent supporting increased spending for the elderly; 58 percent, for the environment; 56 percent, for attracting new employers; 49 percent, for transporta- See VOTERS, page B2 Ul JUL Moscow news execs visit Valley printing facility By David Cannella The Arizona Republic Soviet journalists, with their new press freedoms, arc going to be forgotten as fast as yesterday's news because their reports are superficial and shallow, three executives of a new English-language Soviet newspaper said Thursday.

"This more modern Soviet journalism lacks depth," said Irina Bogat, executive secretary of the Literary Gazette International, a biweekly newspaper published in Phoenix. "It's very shallow and looks as if they are writing about some experiment, about guinea pigs, and not about our country. "Before, under a lot of restrictions, well, these journalists' brains worked better." of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, a 5.6 million circulation newspaper in the Soviet Union. The Soviet version has been described by Western media as "the most influential publication" in the Soviet Union. It often is quoted in Western news reports.

Sergei Orlov, circulation manager for the Literary Gazette International, said its goal is to bring real Soviet life to an American audience. "The whole English-speaking world is our potential audience," Orlov said. "This gives an opportunity for Russians to speak for themselves so people can see we are not monsters with horns." The newspaper has a small staff and uses a lot of free-lance work. See MOSCOW, page B3 The Literary Gazette International is written, translated and designed in Moscow. It is printed in Phoenix and distributed from here to subscribers across the country.

It also is available at 120 newsstands in the United States. Bogat, who also writes for the Literary Gazette, and two other executives from Moscow headquarters were in Phoenix to observe printing operations at Sun World Printing, 2645 E. Washington St. Issue No. 16 is to roll off the presses this week with an article on the Russian ballet.

The paper also takes on tougher subjects, from politics to "The Iron Hand! Do we need it?" The tabloid, heavy on color photographs and bold headlines, is a sister publication Where GOP fears to tread Until last week, there were to be two candidates on the ballot for the office of state senator from District 23. The other candidate was not a member of the Republican Party, as you might expect. is a popular Democrat in a heavily Democratic district. The Republicans, Arizona's largest and wealthiest political party, consider her unbeatable. The Socialist Workers Party, however, docs not.

Danny Boohcr, a brake-press operator for a local steel company, declared himself a candidate for Walker's seat and set out to collect enough signatures on nominating petitions to get on the ballot. He accumulated 400; only 150 valid signatures were required. As soon as Danny's signatures were turned in to the Secretary of State's office, however, the Democrats called in a couple of hired guns from the law firm of Lewis and Roca to challenge Danny's petitions in court. Danny heard about this late one Thursday, after working a long shift. Bis hearing was set for the following-Monday.

Danny was accompanied to court by a friend, which is cheaper than a lawyer but proved to be less effective. 'Such a vengeance' In the end, the judge threw out all but about 50 of Danny's signatures, removing him from the ballot. The Lewis and Roca lawyers also got the judge to hold Danny accountable for court costs. "I'm astounded that the Democrats went after me with such a vengeance," Danny said; "Did they actually consider me a threat?" Melodce Jackson, the executive director of the state Democratic Party, told me, "We're not the bad guy here. This isn't a case of the big, bad party squashing a helpless opponent.

All we were doing was following the rules, protecting our candidate. Who knows what that candidate would have done?" Actually, I think I know. A candidate such as Danny Boohcr could have done exactly this: Nothing. It is what Socialist Workers Party candidates always do. They run for election.

They lose. They have no money for consultants or pollsters or campaign signs or lawyers. "All we have," Danny said bravely, "is our beliefs." I believe him. I would add, however, that he also has a bill from court. As for the voters of District 23, they now have just what the Democrats wanted them to have.

They have no choice. There are several advantages to electing public officials this way. For one thing, picking winners in October helps avoid the November rush. Also, this way eliminates the confusion many voters experience when several names appear on a ballot. If our forefathers had intended for us to be confused, they never would have written our nation's motto, which is: "One man.

One vote. One candidate." Or something like that. Challenger starts at bottom in race Technology drafted to find missing boy Jayson Pearce, in a photo (left) taken before he disappeared, now may look like this computer-created image. it Roger Hartstone Claims that his opponent has little contact with his constituents. ELECTION '90 U.S.

Congress This is the third of four stories profiling the candidates running in contested elections for the U.S. House from Arizona. U.S. Rep. Jay Rhodes is running unopposed in District 1.

By Pamela Manson The Arizona Republic Roger Hartstone is waging an uphill battle. But he says he knew he was starting at the bottom and had nowhere to go but up. The Flagstaff Democrat is trying to unseat Rep. Bob Stump, in Congressional District 3. The district is heavily Republican, and the incumbent has defeated every opponent handily since he first ran foY the seat in 1976.

Yet, Hartstone is optimistic, pointing to a write-in campaign that got him on the ballot after Stump successfully challenged his nomination petitions this summer. Hartstone received 2,206 write-in votes in the primary, well above the 716 he needed See CHALLENGER, pageB3 By Abraham Kwok The Arizona Republic The face has become more elongated, the eyebrows more pronounced, the nose better defined. Over the past seven years, his hair has naturally grown shades darker than it was at age 15 months, when he. was kidnapped. It is the face of Jayson Pearce.

Only it isn't. The picture is a recent computer-created image, the product of sophisticated technology that provides a clue to what Jayson may look like today, at age 8, if he is alive. It marks the first time Phoenix police have used the technique in a missing-person case. It also represents a real ray of hope in the life of Jayson's mother, Napolean Pearce. "You can't put a child who isn't dead in the grave," the 35-year-old former Phoenix resident said Thursday from her Oklahoma home.

"I want to know what happened to my son." The case, Pearce said, still scars her and her other son, Michael, now 14. Mother and son "went to pieces" at different times after Jayson's disappearance, she said. It has been more than seven years since Napolean Pearce arrived at her Phoenix home to find her baby abducted. A note left for Pearce, judged later to have been written by her then-husband, John David Grooms, said, "Jayson is safe and being well cared for." Grooms had written several letters to friends claiming Pearce was an unfit mother, according to court testimony. Grooms, who is not Jayson's natural father, was arrested and sentenced in August 1984 to a maximum 1.8 years in prison for custodial interference, a felony.

More-serious charges, such as kidnapping, never were filed because of lack of evidence. Grooms was freed from prison about eight months later. The fate of Jayson never has been learned. Grooms, now 48, has refused throughout the years to talk about the case or to acknowledge that he took the child, police say. Neither Pearce nor the Phoenix police detective assigned to the case, Charles Masino, have quit the search for Jayson.

Both said they hope the photo it image may stir up new leads or old contacts. "We'd like to think that somebody out there who didn't want to talk to us then because they were close to John now feels like they could talk," Masino said. Grooms, described as a jack-of-all-trades, last worked in Tucson as a furniture salesman. Masino and other detectives who have pursued follow-up interviews lost track of him earlier this year. Pearce, who married Grooms three days after they met, divorced Grooms after Jayson disappeared and has remained single.

These days, she balances college classes and writing Masino and other law-enforcement officials regarding Jayson's disappearance. Anyone with information is asked to call Masino at the general investigations bureau, 262-6141. More Local News Ex-Mecham aide plans to run for governor Max Hawkins, once an aide to then-Gov. Evan Mecham, schedules a news conference to announce that he will run for governor as a write-in Republican candidate. A8.

Bob Stump Says his public appearances aren't well publicized. OBITUARIES, B5..