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TUCSON, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1983 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR SECTION A PAGE THREE fn 1ST-1 1 Audience receptive to TV 'job-a-thon' ft r-- J. if it ii rr 'v--h rj r- .1 HiVT. II By Joe Watt Th Arizona Daily Star Putting unemployed Arizonans back to work is no easy job in itself. Hundreds of Tucsonans gave up part of their Easter holiday to help broadcast a telethon yesterday that matched unemployed workers with ill i r-ii'fci i x-T I rtiti ii 'J -xr II ilt til UK dmL HL iff iff in i If applications at local Circle stores. No figure was available for the rest of the state.

"I'm delighted with the response. I'm ecstatic," said former state Sen. Jim Kolbe, Target: Jobs co-chairman. "The jobs are out there. You just have to go after them." John Huerta, former director of the state Department of Economic Security, served as the other chairman.

Numerous other government agencies and private organizations contributed time and money to the campaign, a spokeswoman said. Alexander Strong, 40, made a trip to the KVOA studios after trying in vain to get through to one of 15 telephones being manned in the studio. Strong, married and the father of three children, has been out of work since September, and he recently lost his home when he could not make his payments. He said he was not overly optimistic that the telethon was going to land him a job, but he said, "It's a start. It's a good start.

"There's a lot of people in my boat that have lost their jobs and their homes and need a job damn fast." Joy Wolf, The Arizona Daily Star Sheet metal assembler Tom Hinman, left, applies for job in aviation; people at right await their turn before TV camera unemployed workers will be sent a he said it also could trigger a list of available jobs, he said. broader psychological response. If people see that their neighbors Kolbe said the Target: Jobs cam- are getting back to work, the entire paign may make only a slight dent in community will be buoyed by the the high rate of unemployment, but news, he said. He said the telethon may make Phoenix this week and be matched people realize how painful unem- by computer with jobs offered by ployment can be. "It's not just tran- employers, said Steve Vierck, a Tuc-sients out in the streets.

The middle son Metropolitan Chamber of Corn-class is out on the streets," he said, merce employee who helped to orga- Job applications will be shipped to nize the campaign. In a few days. 3,500 fill bullring for 'corrida' 3. I 1 r.v'v job openings throughout the state. In Southern Arizona, KVOA (Channel 4) broadcast the three-hour "job-a-thon," and a Phoenix station carried a similar message to the northern part of the state.

The Arizona Job-a-thon was the final installment in a six-week campaign to find jobs for Arizonans. The television show was sponsored by Target: Jobs a group of volunteers who organized to fight high unemployment. When it was all over, about 700 jobs had been offered by local employers, and another 2,300 jobs had been called in from across the rest of the state. Many of those jobs were lined up before the telethon. About 1,200 would-be workers applied for jobs over the phone or at the television studio yesterday, adding to another 2,000 who filled out Miss USA seeker has no qualms By Steve Williams The Arizona Daily Star People have asked Sindy Lou Hed-den whether she feels exploited as 1983's Miss Arizona USA.

"I don't know whether they're exploiting me or I'm exploiting them," she said of the pageant's supporters. "If I win the Miss USA contest, I'll get about $200,000 in prizes and an opportunity to further myself." The 23-year-old Tucsonan, who was named Miss Arizona USA on March 20 in Scottsdale, already has won a $500 cash prize, a full wardrobe, luggage, a $1,000 modeling course and a 17-day trip to Knox-ville, for the Miss USA contest. "This is an opportunity I've chosen for myself, and I don't think it's sexist," she said. "I believe in women's rights. I think women can do any job men can and should get equal pay for equal work.

"But I enjoy being a woman, and all the things that go along with it. I expect a man to open doors for me. I like being treated like that." Looks aren't really very important in the Miss USA contest, says Hedden, a tall, slender woman with hypnotic silver-blue eyes and perfect features. "They aren't looking for a pretty thing with no brains. They want a quick thinker, and someone with good moral values." Hedden, a University of Arizona junior majoring in communications, says she has learned a lot about how to win by competing in several other pageants, including last year's Miss Arizona USA contest.

She was named Raceway Queen at the Phoenix International Raceway last year, and in May she will attend the Indianapolis 500, where she will present awards to winners. She also was named Miss Photogenic in 1981. But she says much of her insight into what makes a winner came from being a judge in the Miss Teenage Arizona pageant last year. "When I had been in pageants before, I was always so worried about finding the right answers to the 1. 1 v-; 1 By Anthony Figueroa Special to The Arizona Daily Star NOGALES, Sonora An Easter Sunday crowd of about 3,500 witnessed the return of bullfighting yesterday to the old bullring in Nogales after almost a 10-year absence.

The arena was about three-quarters full for the first corrida de toros there since 1974. It featured matadors Jose Antonio Gonzalez and Guillermo Capetillo, who had to contend with unusually windy conditions. Gonzalez, dressed in blue and gold, was awarded two ears and the tail from the first bull the maximum for an outstanding performance. The bull made many passes before it tired, and Gonzalez finished it off with only one sword thrust, without using the cape to distract the bull. The black-and-gold-clad Capetillo, the more artistic of the two matadors, likewise killed his first bull with one sword thrust.

He was awarded an ear for a performance marked by graceful veronicas, passes done with the large, yellow-and-pink cape, and good right- and left-hand passes with the smaller red cape. His second bull, however, was the most dangerous of the four used yesterday. It took a second sword thrust to kill the bull, as Capetillo struck bone the first time. Capetillo is a popular soap-opera actor in Mexico, but his father, Manuel, also had some fans in the audience yesterday. When the elder Capetillo was introduced, he received a standing ovation from the crowd, many of whom remembered his own performances in the arena years ago when he was a matador.

Against the final bull, Gonzalez got the crowd going when he started the faena, or latter phase of the fight, by taking three passes on his knees. He also ended the bullfight on both knees, kissing the bull on the forehead generating great applause from the crowd just before he killed it. He was awarded two more ears. Anthony Figueroa, a Tucson resident, is a former Mexico City Jo VIMI, The Arizona Dally Star Miss Arizona USA Sindy Lou Hedden is pageant veteran i i'ii 0- 1 I 1 E8 I L'k (M Via valuable learning experience and poise-building experience." She says she hopes the Miss Arizona USA and Miss USA pageants will help open stage doors for her. "I've always loved being on stage.

As a little girl, I had a lot of parts in plays." She recently was picked for a lead role in "Hit Gang," an MGM gangster movie that will be filmed in Arizona. But although she would like to do a little more acting, she says her long-term career goal is to own a designer boutique. That boutique may well be in Tucson. Hedden, a native of Saratoga, moved here just 3'2 years ago to attend the UA, but she says she plans to stay in the Old Pueblo for a while. "This is my home I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Tucson is a really nice little town. It breeds a lot of neat people." questions the judges asked. But when I was a judge, I realized that you shouldn't try to say what you think the judges want to hear. It's more important to say what you feel and just be yourself." She's spending most of her time now preparing for the Miss USA pageant. "You don't just win and then go to Knoxville.

I'm been so busy, running back and forth from Phoenix, working on my video, voice, clothing and weight. A television camera automatically puts 10 pounds on you, and the Miss USA pageant will be broadcast nationwide, so I've got to take off 10 pounds. That's going to be hard, because I love to eat." Although she would like to become Miss USA and go on to win the Miss Universe pageant, she says she won't be too disappointed if she loses. "It's OK whether I win or lose, because I'll know I did my best. Either way, I feel I won't be truly a winner or a loser.

This is a very Lni 1 a. viijaJSW. Jo Pafronttt, The Arizona Dally Star Resurrection Mass Bishop Manuel Moreno of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson celebrates the rising of Christ during the Easter Mass at St. Augustine's Cathedral downtown. Showdown with cop ended the wandering of the non-prodigal son R.H.

Ring Commentary place. He sat in his truck and watched her with binoculars. He dropped out of school and told his parents it was to clear his mind. He covered up, to save them worry. Some reassurance came when he joined a volunteer program teaching illiterates to read and write.

One morning he left the house to take a drive in his truck. He smiled and said "See you later." A few minutes later Julie called. "He's bleeding. He's bleeding. she said.

Artie had gone to her house. She retreated to the bedroom. He went outside and broke a window with the butt of the knife. A cop showed up. Artie backed him into the street two, three times.

He wouldn't give up. Artie kept yelling for Julie to "come out and see this." She stayed indoors. Finally his knife thrusts got too close. The cop fired just once. At the academy they are trained on targets shaped like a man's chest.

Art Morris, the rebellious old man who lost two headstrong sons, isn't bitter about the cop. He grieves. And he can't let Artie go quite yet. He persisted to put this story out. He just had to get you to understand.

don his self-imposed alienation. He worked the docks on Puget Sound, the fishing boats. His father thinks Robert is now somewhere up in Wyoming. Can't say for sure. Artie, though, stayed home and pursued respectable goals.

Nobody would've expected him to pull a knife on a cop, to wind up shot. Artie Morris, born in a local hospital, did well all along. In an alternative high school that stressed initiative, he took college-level courses and graduated second in his class, one year ahead of schedule. Artie enrolled at the University of Ari-zona and studied science and liberal arts. His father scrimped and did repairs to pay the bills, for Artie was something special.

Physics, computers, astronomy, math Artie was a whiz. He bought a home computer with pay from jobs with his father. Mostly he stayed in his room, fiddling with the computer, studying books meant for professionals much older than he. It would be easy to say Julie was his downfall. She was his first and only and unrequited love.

Really, Artie's tormentor was himself. Julie never returned Artie's affection the way he wished. He wrote poems to her, worked on her car, drove her on weekend trips. But in the two years they had, she saw other men too. "The pangs of love sting me," Artie wrote in one of his notebooks.

"Life and love elude me." Shy as a boy, Artie grew aggressive with jealousy. He shouldered through Julie's door in December. He wielded the commando knife his father gave him for camping, and a tire iron. The police surrounded Artie Morris that time. For hours he refused to surrender, threatening to do himself harm.

A police psychiatrist talked him into a hospital mental ward. Just before Christmas, Artie came home from the hospital. "They couldn't cope with him," his father said. More likely it was routine. We put them out on the streets today.

It's so much more humane. Still Artie wouldn't shake his obsession. Julie had filed no charges against him. Forget her, his parents said. But Artie did not back down.

He began to follow Julie from place to Art Morris couldn't let it go. He had to tell you about his son. "I'm Art, he was Artie. That's how people knew us," he said. You may have missed the first story about Artie.

It wasn't lengthy, and it didn't get prominent display. These things occur so regularly. Not two weeks ago, Artie came at a cop with a knife, crazy for a moment. He was shot once, just below the heart. The old man saw him on the operating table, tubes up his nose, a sheet pulled up to his neck.

Artie, 19, was dead. After, Art Morris drove out to the newspaper office in the pickup he bought for his son. When nobody followed up his story, he came back. A bantam of a man, he wore work clothes and plain shoes. White hair jutted from under his cap and poked from his chin.

The crude tattoo on his wiry forearm was inked 30 years ago with a toothpick. The pain from his bad heart stiffened his left leg and side; he walked slowly to where we could talk. Bad heart aside, he lit one of the cheap cigars he buys by the case. Social Security disability and military retirement provide no luxuries. After 30 years in the Air Force, seven in Tucson, Art retired a sergeant.

Could have gotten further, but he "was one of the rebels." His Artie was his pride. The older son, Robert, never did straighten out. A wild kid, Robert did a year in prison for joy riding in a stolen car. In the Army in Vietnam, he drew his pistol on a sergeant who slapped another man. The mule-head got a year in Leavenworth.

Now Robert is a roamer. He won't aban.