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FWAL The Arizona Republic SECTION BUSINESSB5 0bituariesb4 Columns Puzzlesbs MONDAY AUGUST 27, 1990 State Caeyoe holds, guards ancient town Freshmen, 'old-timers' ready for life at ASU Find fuels river-flow debate 1 Sr? Luke Cgrand CANYON NAVAJO y. NATIONAL INDIAN J- PARK RESERVATION A I Site of I I Anasazi Uo rulns 1 iSirV Area In A detail I 0 10 SPhoenix I Miles C43 I mpt Jpj i ij By Stuart Steers The Arizona Republic For the past week, all the usual signs of a new school year have been evident at Arizona State University. Long lines at the campus bookstore, impenetrable mobs of students at the nightspots along Mill Avenue in Tempe and flocks of lonely freshmen putting on brave faces as they make new friends and look for every opportunity to call Mom and Dad. For 45,000 ASU students, today is the start of another academic year. Although starting college is a difficult transition for just about anyone, some students are adjusting not only to a new school but to a new state and climate as well.

"I came here to get away from the cold," said Robert Pikora, 24, of Hartford, Conn. Pikora looked as if he had learned about life in the desert the hard way: He was walking in the shade to cool a sunburn he got while tubing on the Salt River. "I just came out here on a whim," said Pikora, a junior majoring in architecture. "Last week was my first week in Arizona." Hundreds of students spent Sunday looking around campus and trying to figure out where their classes will be held. One of them is Mike Bibbey, 17, a freshman frpm Powell, Wyo.

"My town had only 5,000 people," Bibbey said, taking in the sprawling Tempe campus. "When I came down here, I only knew one person, but I've met a lot of people in the same predicament." Bibbey, a music major, said he likes the palm trees and desert flowers of the campus. The Arizona climate and ASU campus are extremely familiar to Mike Boger and Randy Appleton, two 18-year-old friends from Tempe's McClintock High School who are part of the freshman class. "You can tell who's from out of state. They're always going like this," Boger said, theatrically wiping the back of his hand across his forehead and moaning like someone suffering from heatstroke.

Both Appleton and Boger are living at home but said they may move into the dorms next semester. Appleton's father is a professor in ASU's education department. Appleton said that although he is undecided about what he'll major in, he knows it won't be education. Boger said he wants to major in aerospace engineering. By Mark Shaffer The Arizona Republic GRAND CANYON For years, Colorado River boatmen floating through the Grand Canyon have marveled at the large sandy dunes near the mouth of the Little Colorado River.

Now it turns out that there was even more than met the eye. Erosion recently exposed a small part of a wall about three stories high standing under the mounds of sand and alluvial rock near the riverbank. Also revealed were ancient Indian metates, stones with concave surfaces that were used to grind corn, and many colorful styles of pottery shards The archaeologists' conclusion: The sandy site is a Anasazi town, Many more such discoveries are expected to be made in the Grand Canyon, beginning this week. And some federal officials believe that the deterioration of such ancient structures could emerge as a factor in a very modern controversy: the fight over fluctuating releases from Glen Canyon Dam according to hydroelectric-power demands. U.S.

Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan last year ordered an environmental-impact study on the effects on the Colorado River of the dam's operations. The results are due in July. The archaeological phase of the study, in which scientists will search almost 250 miles along the river for Indian ruins, begins this week. "I think you are going to see hundreds of sites turned up, and the dam operations will figure into the existence of many of them," said Richard Hereford, geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff.

Clear, cold water is released through electric-producing turbines at the dam. The water released varies from 1,000 to 31,500 cubic feet per second, depending on the amount of electricity needed throughout the West. That creates as much as a 15-foot fluctuation in the river's level downstream. Environmental groups have called for steady flows of about 8,000 cfs pending completion of the environmental-impact study. A bill sponsored by Rep.

George Miller, and calling for consistent releases from the dam was passed by the House last month. Opponents of changing the dam's See ANCIENT, page B4 Michael MelsterThe Arizona Republic Senior Lon Smith (left) and junior Tamy Merten (center) show Robert Johnson, a friend from West Virginia, the campus' Hayden Library. However, the library was closed Sunday morning. ELECTION '90 SILENT WITNESS SQUAW PEAK INTERCHANGE The interchange opens today at 2 p.m. and will connect fully the Papago, East Papago freeways and the Squaw Peak Parkway to motorists traveling to or from the downtown Phoenix area.

The East Papago Freeway also will open to 44th Street at 2 p.m. Eastbound traffic must exit the freeway at 40th Street and continue on a frontage road. Westbound traffic may access the freeway at either 44th or 40th streets. Secretary of State ZERO IN ON CRIME if A 1 1 i Jim Dick Shumway Mahoney Ladjuana Charisse Hambrick Is described as black, 5 feet 5, 115 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Shumway, challenger marked by contrasts Wl Squaw yl IN Peak To downtown yl Niv.

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sky Harbor International VMdnfeL 'U Aiiport Opi'l993 Broadway Rd. 9c-tOv i 1 i -i J2 fL Southern Ave. I I I Jmhz Source: Arizona Department of Transportation E. Papago stretch to open Squaw Peak link also debuts today By Joyce Valdez The Arizona Republic Ten down, 221 more to go. The scheduled opening of a 3-mile segment of the East Papago Freeway this afternoon brings to 10 the number of freeway miles that have been built with Proposition 300 funds approved by Maricopa County voters in 1985.

Proposition 300 authorized a half-cent sales-tax increase to build 231 miles of freeways over 20 years. Seven of those miles have been opened on the Agua Fria Freeway in the west Valley, and three more will be added to the developing freeway system today at 2 p.m. The final ramps of the multilevel Squaw Peak interchange also will be ready for traffic at the same time. Proposition 300 funds also were used to build 1.5 miles of the Squaw Peak Parkway, which will open to Northern Avenue on Friday. Phoenix constructed the parkway from its origin at McDowell Road north to Glendale Avenue, and the state is responsible for the northernmost segments.

Sales-tax funds were not applied to the Papago Inner Loop, a segment of Interstate 10 that was completed earlier this month. To Valley drivers with an insatiable desire for new freeways, 10 miles may seem about as satisfying as 10 noodles to a famished man. But transportation officials are elated with the construction progress so far. Mark Bonan, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, said Arizona is "putting freeways into construction faster than any state in the nation." The mileage will more than double by the end of the first 10 years of the building program financed by the half-cent sales tax, Bonan said. By 1995, the Valley will rank close The Arizona Republic and Silent Witness need your help.

As a community service, The Republic will publish brief descriptions each Monday of people and crimes for which more information is needed. If you can help, call Silent Witness, 26 1-8600 or 1-800-343-TIPS. You can remain anonymous. Crime of the week Police need help finding the killer of -year-old Mathew Scott Carter. Carter left the Golden Eight Ball Billiards in the 2800 block of West Indian School Road about 4 a.m.

July 28, police said. As he pulled his blue 1967 Chevrolet pickup truck into an Arco station at 7th Avenue and West Osborn Road, he was injured fatally by a shotgun blast fired from a 1970s-model midsize vehicle that apparently followed Carter's truck into the station's driveway, police said. The shotgun blast shattered the passenger-side window of the truck, striking Carter in the right shoulder, back and arm, police said. The crime will be re-enacted in a newscast Tuesday at 6 p.m. on KPNX-TV (Channel 1 2).

2 suspects arrested Two of three men identified in last week's Silent Witness notice have been arrested, according to police. Mark Andrew Konopa, 29, suspected of burglary, was arrested Wednesday, and Tony Rae Carpino, suspected of burglary and fraudulent schemes, was arrested Thursday, police said. Both men were arrested on information provided to police from individuals who saw their pictures, names and descriptions in The Republic, police said. 3 named in warrants Police need help finding one woman and two men with outstanding felony warrants. Ladjuana Charisse Hambrick, 25, also known as Tookie Hambrick, has an outstanding warrant accusing her of theft and a probation violation, police said.

Police described Hambrick as black, 5 feet 5,115 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Bruce Alan Brown, 43, has an outstanding warrant accusing him of failure to appear on escape and narcotics charges. Police said Brown could become violent if approached or apprehended. Brown is described as Anglo, 6 feet, 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police said he has a teardrop tattoo near the outside edge of his right eye and is known as Teardrop.

Other names Brown has used Include Robert Alen Whittlock, Cody Allen Miles, Alfred Dunbar, Gregory Bond Clouthier and Alfred Abraham Chuigey. He has an unknown type of tattoo on his right shoulder. Paul Arthur Sprenger, 27, has an outstanding warrant accusing him of failure to appear on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft and trafficking in stolen property. Police described Sprenger as Anglo, 5 feet 11,210 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Bruce Alan Brown Is described as Anglo, 6 feet, 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

By Don Harris The Arizona Republic Some see the Democratic race for secretary of state as a real contrast: a contest between a veteran bureaucrat who knows the territory and a budding politician who wants to change the landscape. Jim Shumway, 51, who was appointed to the job in April 1988 by Gov. Rose Moffbrd, has been toiling in the Secretary of State's Office and in other political positions since 1961. He started as a voting-machine mechanic. His main campaign message is experience and competence.

Dick Mahoney, 39, a lawyer and associate professor at the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, says the state's chief elections officer should be an advocate for change. He recommends an assortment of campaign reforms, including a tighter rein on political-action committees, an eight-year limit on officeholders and same-day voter registration. The winner of the Sept. 1 1 primary will face Republican Ray Rottas in the Nov. 6 general election for the job.

Rottas, 62, is winding up a second four-year term as state treasurer and is constitutionally barred from running for a third. Moreover, the winner automati- See CONTRASTS, page B2 Paul Arthur Sprenger Is described as Anglo, 5 feet 11,210 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. The Arizona Republic the street," she added. Eastbound traffic must exit the new freeway at 40th Street but can continue to 44th Street on a frontage road. Westbound traffic can get on the freeway at 44th Street or 40th Street.

Meanwhile, the multilevel interchange fully connects the Papago, Squaw Peak and East Papago freeways. Motorists will be able to make freeway-to-freeway connections whether traveling to or from downtown Phoenix. to the middle on the freeway scale and will be near the top by 2000. Sherry Smallman, who lives near 34th and Pierce streets, said Friday that she can't wait to hop on the East Papago and zoom west on the freeway to visit her best friend, who lives at 51st Avenue and Osborn Road. can get on the freeway and be there in 10 or 15 minutes," she said, relishing the prospect of fresh pavement and no stoplights.

Suddenly, Los Angeles seems "up.