Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 8

A-8 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Tuesday, August 8, 1978 KOAT Announces Plans For $1.5 Million Studio "We looked for over eight months for land," Sklower said. "We found nothing close to freeways. Comanche will soon have an on and off ramp to 1-25." Sklower said the present" station building was too small for office and studio space and not conveniently located to freeways. The new studio will have two 2,400 square foot studios. Onewill be primarily for news operations and the other for commercials.

But Sklower said they will be flexibly designed to be used for both purposes. Sklower said the new station will also have parking for 300 vehicles. "We don't have enough parking for our clients at the present station," he said. Sklower said the new studio will occupy 3.5 acres on a six-acre site. The other 2.5 acres will be developed for office space by Ray Montgomery.

KOAT purchased its land from Montgomery. Sklower said the final pur-" chase has not been finalized. "It's complete enough to release it but there are still some discussions on which way the building will face and that kind of thing," Sklower said. KOAT is owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Co. of St.

Louis which operates' the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other news and broadcasting operations. KOAT-TV will build a new $1.5 million studio and office building at Carlisle and Comanche. Max Sklower, station general manager, said he hoped to move into the new building within 15 months. The planned 35,000 square foot building will be more than twice the area of the present KOAT-TV facilities at 1377 University NE.

Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock will design the building. A contractor hasn't been selected. The present KOAT-TV facility was sold three months ago to KRZY and KRST radio stations which now have their studios at 2401 Quincy NE. Just Part UPI Telephoto A twin engine Convair rests in the spot allow the plane to be moved. The aircraft, where it made a forced landing July 20 owned by a travel club, will remain in the while the field was being planted with corn.

field and the problem is how to get the The grower wanted the corn to mature, and thing out and when. At the time of the now wants to harvest his crop, but he won't forced landing, there were no injuries. ENGINE Of the Crop 1 Tm Carter Threatens Tuition Bill Veto This Week Only! $1 9 students starting Aug. 1, 1979 and an equal amount for elementary and secondary education students starting a year later, thus allowing time for the court test. Once the elementary and secondary education students are phased in, the cost is estimated at $1,081 billion, rising to $2,888 billion by 1983.

Neither Reps. Manuel Lu-jan, R-NM, or Harold Runnels, D-NM, were present when the House took up the bill; however, Runnels says he favors credits only for college students. Carter has cited his belief that the plan to extend the credits belowthecollege level is unconstitutional, the cost of the program and its effects on public schools as reasons he will veto it if passed. of the bill, says it will subsidize 4.5 million private school students to the tune of $250 per year (the maximum) at the same time 44.5 million public school pupils get an average of only $138 per year in federal subsidies. Hollings claims the bill is "pattenly unconstitutional" and cites an opinion by Attorney General Griffin Bell to that effect.

Also, Hollings says one in five private schools which could be benefitted are, in reality, "segregation acad-eies" set up in the aftermath of desegregation in the South. For these reasons, educational and Civil Rights groups have generally opposed the bill. The Senate bill calls for $250 tax credits for college senator has a lot of his own credibility on the line in this fight since as far back as 1964 he asked as an intermediary between the hierarchy of his church and the national party on that issue. In 1964, he helped draft a platform plank that allowed his church's leaders to withdraw their opposition to federal aid to education. But critics of the tuition tax credit plan of which Moynihan is a key sponsor insistthat it will notonly harm the public schools but is, in fact, unconstitutional.

The bill provides for a quick test in the Supreme Court of the constitutionality of extending the credit to secondary and elementary parochial schools of all denominations. Sen. Ernest Hollings, one of the chief critics in the South in the wake of desegregation. The credits are supported by both Sens. Pete Domenici, R-NM one of the original sponsors, and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, R-NM.

It is seen by some as a form of tax relief for hard-pressed middle-income taxpayers, many of whom send their children to parochial schools. One of the leading proponents of the tax credit, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-NY, charges that opponents of this or any other kind of aid to parochial school are often "bigots" who feel threatened by the "separatist" schools set up by the Roman Catholic Church in the last century. Moynihan points an accusing finger at a number of well known 'iberal -journals on this account.

The colorful New York By PAULR.WIECK Of the Journal's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Carter's repeated threats to use his veto power on a recalcitrant Congress may finally materialize if the Senate passes a $1 billion plus tuition tax credit bill when it comes to the floor thisweek.TheHousehas already passed such a bill, extending it to both private and elementary-seconardary school students as well as university students. Carter has repeatedly threatened to veto a bill which extends the credit below the college level. The bill revives religious controversies of the past and raises new ones based on claims the credits will be a boom to "segregation academies" which have flourished 8 cyl. cars $3.00 extra Air conditioned cars $3.00 extra. INCLUDES: New spark plugs, breaker points and condenser; reset dwell and timing.

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RAIN CHECK. Should our supply ol some sizes or lines run shotl during this event, we will honor any orders placed now for future delivery al the advertised price. the 50 candidates who sought elected county offices in the June 6 primary have failed so far to file one or more of the required statements. In line with the current ordinance, the board this week will send each of the 25 letters advising them of their failure to file. Those who don't file the required statements after that will be sent a second letter, and those who still don't file will be called to a public hearing.

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ning for office again for a specified period of time if they violated the ordinance but lost the election. In making his pitch for the revisions, Shaw said, "If we're going to protect the public from overreaching by candidates and if we're going to protect the public from conflicts of interest in county government we're going to have to have something that is enforceable." At the same time, the board recommended that the total number of required contribution and expenditures reports to be filed be cut from four to three. This would be done by requiring only one before the election one week before the voting rather than the present two four weeks before the voting and the Friday before the election. The Bernalillo County Board of Ethics agreed Monday to seek tougher penalties and other changes in the county's present ethics code governing political campaigns for county offices. Board Chairman Mark Shaw termed the present ordinance, adopted in 1974, "extremely vague," "full of holes," and "unenforceable." Shaw said the biggest problem with the ordinance is that the board can do no more than publicly reprimand any candidate who violates it.

At a meeting Monday afternoon, Shaw and the other board members agreed to draft by Sept. 11 a revised ordinance which, among other things, would contain tougher penalties. Any such action by the board, howev- Commission has authority to revise the ordinance or adopt a new one. The ordinance governs political campaigns for county offices by requiring the filing of financial disclosure and contribution and expenditures reports at specified intervals during primary and general election campaigns. It also sets limits on campaign contributions and expenditures.

Shaw said he will draft a new ordinance reflecting current state law, which would make violation of any terms of the ordinance a petty misdemeanor, carrying a maximum $300 fine. Also, he said, candidates who violate the ordinance and fail to promptly resolve the matter woula be kept off the general election ballot or barred from taking office, if Former State Rep. Kurt Lohbeck and his wife, Carol Ann Lohbeck, filed a lawsuit against several Albuquerque police officers in U.S. District Court Monday. The Lohbecks claim in the suit they suffered "public humiliation and embarrassment, and as a result sustained psychological and emotional trauma" after being arrested at an Albuquerque drinking spot in January.

Named as defendants are Detectives Jose B. Salazar and B. Minchow, Officers F. J. Wingate and D.

Sanchez, and two unidentified police officers. In the suit, Lohbeck claims $500 in one hundred dollar bills were taken from him by ZODY'S HELMET NIGHT DUKES VS PHOENIX GIANTS er, would be purely advi' Shaw said that, according tney won tne election, or Salazar "under the pretense Wednesday August 9, 1978 sory, since only the County would be barred from run- to the board's records, 25 of Education Retirement Fund Earns Record $24 Million During Year Sponsored By Zody's Discount Department Store FREE Helmets To The First lOOO Children 14 Years Of Age or Younger To Enter The Sports Stadium GAME WEDNESDAY 7:30 A record $24 million was earned by the New Mexico Education Retirement Fund during the past fiscal year, said Phil Gonzales, state chairman of the Retirement Board. The fund is the pension plan for New Mexico public school and university employees. There are currently 55,000 members, including 39,000 active contributors, 10,000 persons who have money deposited in the fund and 6,000 persons earning retirement benefits. At a meeting in Santa Fe Monday, the Retirement Board selected Frank Ready of Espanola as associate director of the fund.

Ready is to replace Ken Davis as director upon Davis's retirement next spring. Davis has headed the fund since 1957. Ready is the executive secretary of the New Mexico School Board Association. He has worked with the association for the past five years. Before that, he was with the state Department of Education.

The educator's pension fund currently stands at approximately $318 million. Average assets held by the fund before the year's end totaled less than $300 million. "One of the signs of 'good health' in a pension plan is the ability to pay all benefits out of earnings without touching employee-employer contributions," said Gonzales, who is also the Albuquerque Public Schools associate superintendent for finance. "The fund is doing this with a healthy margin," he said. they were to be used as evidence," and never returned.

In February the Lohbecks were found innocent of the charges by a Municipal Court judge. They had been booked on complaints including disorderly conduct, drinking in public, criminal damage to private property, assault and battery ana resisting arrest. Judge John E. Brown ruled in a court order that Salazar, a plainclothes detective and the arresting officer, "interfered in a private matter simply because one Kurt Lohbeck was involved." Brown said it was brought out that Salazar had arrested Lohbeck on several occasions, "and at least the important charges against Lohbeck were dismissed, inferring, of course, a grudge against Mr. Lohbeck." The suit contends the Lohbecks were drinking in the Headquarters, 4310 E.

Central, about 7:20 p.m. when Salazar and Minchow entered and began harassing them verbally ana physically. The suit states that "without warrant or probable cause" the Lohbecks were led outside, pulled, shoved violently against parked automobiles, handcuffed and verbally assaulted. In the court order, Brown said the incident started with a "misunderstanding" as to the defendants taking bar glasses containing alcohol from the bar. This month in Santa Fe, the 1977 conviction of Lohbeck on a worthless check charge was affirmed by the State Court of Appeals.

i a 1 1 Soil Nutrition Topic Of Growers' Meeting 'HAjitJUilHillUJll' as QHTE i G33G3DG0GGSQQQEe 9PSE30 Soil nutrition will be discussed at the Organic Growers Association's meeting Aug.l4at7:30p.m.inthe Garden Center, 10120 Lomas NE. Ken Brin will talk about soil nutrition as opposed to plant nutrition and on building the soil rather than treating plant symptoms. He will describe humus and hu-mates and their effect on loil and plants, and research that has been done on soil nutrients. The public is invited. AT ALBUQUERf SPORTS STADi 1 iOM mini.