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itochs soair it Take Holiday oeleloiratDiiiDS Sunny tt mmi HIGH 110 LOW 86 Page B8 THE AETOMA Eepumic Editio.ii 500 Copyright 1999, The Arizona Republic the Fourth fi.fi flnnlUi rnnnii7 Phoenix, Arizona www.azcentrdl.com Saturday, July 3, 1999 110th year, No. 46 A brief history of Channel 3: ilJl'il A group led by Ernest McFarland, who served Arizona as a U.S. Senator, governor, and chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, wins a license to build a TV station on Channel 3. The VUUUUUUU Ij company is called the Arizona Television Co. nm Channel 3 goes on the air in March.

It is affiliated with ABC, which puts on only four hours of programming a day. Kill Delbert Lewis named president, chief executive and general manager of Channel 3. llfei Ernest McFarland has brain surgery, transfers ownership of the station to family members. HM'I Lewis hires Bill Miller as general manager and Phil Alvidrez as news director. Both had been working for Channel 10.

iHMI Channel 3 earns its first top rankings for news programs. 1 After almost 40 years of affiliation, ABC dumps Channel 3 in favor of the group-owned Channel 15. iEMg-tl Station regroups, becomes top-rated independent station in the country. ii--Vi Channel 3 sold after 45 years of local ownership to A.H. Belo Corp.

of Dallas for $31 5 million. Lower-income venture capital Suzanne StarrThe Arizona Republic George and Tracy Miller, both nurses, "say they need the income from their sexually explicit Web site for their children's college educations. Web site steams hospital Details of visit The president is tentatively scheduled to arrive in Phoenix shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday. He will make three stops: Chicanos Por La Causa, 1112 E.

Buckeye Road. La Canasta Mexican Foods 3101 W. Jackson St. A business roundtable. Site to be announced.

The Arizona Republic By Jane Larson The Arizona Republic Small businesses in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in Arizona will get the same kind of economic boost that gave Intel Corp. and Federal Express Corp. their start under a plan President Clinton will announce Wednesday in Phoenix. A new investment company being formed will be the first of its kind in the nation aimed at "New Markets," companies locating or hiring in lower-income areas such as south and central Phoenix, White House officials said Friday. Six major banks in the Valley already have committed $5 million, the minimum needed to form the Small Business Investment Company, to be called Magnet Capital.

Please see VENTURE, Page A24 Valley refugee family almost home Texas firm purchases Channel 3 'Arizona's Family' sold for $315 million Nurses face review for explicit business By Carol Sowers The Arizona Republic A husband-wife team of critical-care nurses says a Scottsdale hospital is trying to dump them because they star on an X-rared Web site they say has 22,000 paid subscribers. "We are doing it to help pay for our kids' college educations," said George Miller, 35, father of a 5-year-old daughter and an 11 -year-old son. George said he and his wife, Tracy, 33, of northeast Phoenix, did not tout their Web site during work hours at Scotts- By Michael Clancy The Arizona Republic Channel 3 (KTVK), the last locally owned television station in Phoenix, was sold Friday for 7" yj: -j $315 million to A.H. Belo Corp. of Dallas, one of the largest operators of TV stations in the United States.

"This was the most difficult decision our family has ever made," said Delbert Lewis, president and chief executive officer of MAC America and one of the dale Healthcare Osborn. But word leaked out about a month ago and employees began dialing up the steamy site on their work computers. That's when the trouble started. George Miller said when he showed up for work as an on-call nurse on Thursday, he was told by a supervisor she had founders of Channel 3 in 1955. Delbert Lewis KSEE: THE LEWISES: Arizona coupled lives and business style reflects their ideals, A25 Lewis, his wife, Jewell, their UTiat the hospital is doing is taking our income away by sticking their nose in our business.

George Miller nurse facing FOR WEB SITE five children and Station Manager Bill Miller settled on Belo as new owner a month ago and were working out details of the sale up Please see KTVK, Page A25 Michael ChowThe Arizona Republic A worn-out Diana Berisha rests at the airport in Skopje, Macedonia. She and her family hope to cross the Kosovo border today. Arrival in Macedonia forgotten to cancel me." When he returned home, he said, a supervisor called and told him that "because of the Web site, we were not to come to work until further notice." "Maybe the hospital has a prob 'Godfather' author Puzo dead at 78 20 miles lem with nudity, or they don't want their image tarnished," he said. "But no one would have ever known Man. xx Kosoyo Prfitlna CZH2 See a slide show of photos by Michael Chow, follow the progress of the (amity returning to Kosovo with regular updates from reporter Chris Fiscus, and read about other refugees in the VaJley, on Republic's Web site.

at Scottsdale Healthcare if they had not brought this to light. They By Chris Fiscus Tha Arizona Republic SKOPJE, Macedonia The Berishas had breakfast Friday at 37,000 feet, somewhere over Paris. An hour later, they landed in Vienna. "We are close now," Nairn Berisha, 46, said among the hundreds of ethnic Albanians gathered at Gate AI2, waiting for a flight to Macedonia. The thrill of the flight: Albanian-language newspapers were handed out, and Dardan Berisha.

15, shook the pages with glee. "Five weeks with no Albanian!" he said, looking back on his time as a refugee in the United States. When the plane landed in Skopje at 1:45 p.m. (4:43 a.m. Arizona time), the plane created their own problem." Kay Spcrduti, hospital spokes woman, would not comment on the Millers' case except to say.

"The matter is under review. She said she did not know how long the zcentral.com. Skopje ALBANIA el' MACEDONIA Please see MSftTM, Rige A2 I Tha Arizona Reoubkc erupted in cheers. "Oh, my God, Mesa Berisha, 35. said as Nairn INSIDE Kosovo: smiled and gave a thumbs up.

It had been about 21 hours since they had flown out of Phoenix. AMrology Stepping off the plane and onto the tarmac, By Mel Qussow New Vortt Time Mario Puzo, the bestsclling novelist and screenwriter who created The Godfather and made the Corleoncs the most famous and infamous of Mafia families and an enduring myth on the American cultural landscape, died Friday at his home in Bay Shore, N.Y. The cause was heart failure, said his agent, Neil Olson. Puzo was 78. When Puzo wrote The Codfa-ther in the late 1960s, he did it reluctantly.

His first two novels had received favorable reviews but earned him a total of $6,500. At 45 and in debt, he believed that as a writer he was going downhill fast. But he had tome favorite stories to tell about the Mafia, and, for the money, he decided to write book about Italian-Americans in organized Please see MHICt, Page AH Puwlcs Religion Snorts Television Nairn and his family walked to the terminal as Dll Alii Dll LI At Home Bridge Business D8, II D6 CI DI0 1)8 CLI hulking, dark-grccn military helicopters hovered. Military cargo planes and camouflage tents Chuckle Mario Puzo He believed he wrote below his gifts in The Godfather. TRIBUTE: Bonamo famy member praises author tor setting the standard in depicting organized crime.

Slobodan lined parts of the runway. Soldiers from various A2 Weather CLI Wheels CL55 Dll nations walked by as NATO trucks eased past. Journey Home Arizona Republic reporter Chris Fiscus and photographer Michael Chow are accompanying the Berisha family as it Journeys home to AVuom The Berishas fled their Pristina home In late March and spent the past month In Tcmpe with relators. I hi us and Chow will fde updates, photos and occasional stories as the Berishas disanvr the state of their home, their friends and their country. The air smclled of diescl fuel.

Classified Comici D8, Dear Ahhy larxk-n The Berishas were about an hour from Kosovo. But delays with flights, long waits with customs Milosevic Milosevic: Crowd of 5,000 domonstrates agninst Yugoslavian presidents opvemmont, A31 officials and a lost piece of luggage meant it was too late to try to cross the border. IciboNMtz Life tottery Thev went to a hotel in nearbv Tetovo. Mace Dll Bl Dl B3 Bl EI0 B6.7 A2 Montini donia, for the night. They would head for Kosovo in the morning.

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