Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 1

Rosenzweig tried to influence local criminal cases top of the news The ower of another 17 per cent of Rose Garden Was David Rich, who had helped bankroiywarren and was in the process of selling, another company, Advance Realty, to him. Documents obtained by IRE show thatWarren and Ed Lazar, a Warren associatemurdered gangland-style in 1975, were (This series, a project of the nationwide Investigative Reporters and Editors, Is being carried daily. Two Arizona Daily reporters, Alex Drehsler and John Rawlinson, participated in the project.) 177 Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. In the eyes of many people, Harry Rosenzweig is the man who helped Phoenix grow up the suc involved in AdvanceRealty's management '1972. This was the tackroundiiTf372-73 when aqua decided to buy about 40 per cent of GENERALLY FAIR.

Today's forecast includes some high cloudiness and breezes, but generally (air with a high in the lower 70s and a low in the lower 40s. Yesterday's high and low were 74 and 38. A cold front moving from Lake Michigan to Texas brought lower temperatures to the Rockies and the upper Mississippi Valley yesterday, but temperatures remained seasonably mild ahead of and behind the front. Rain and snow fell along the central and northern Pacific Coast. Elsewhere, sunny skies prevailed.

Yesterday's temperature extremes were 88 at Columbia, S.C., and Presidio, and 2 at Dillion, Maine. Details on Page 4A. that he could place in any premises he wanted. And when the board was taken to task for not putting out to bid the purchase of six expensive pairs of binoculars bought from Rosenzweig's store, a commission official replied: "Well, if they're from Rosenzweig's, we know they are good." Warren said he has met Rosenzweig on numerous occasions and has made political contributions (never more than $100) solicited by Rosenzweig. But Rosenzweig says he has met Warren just once and has never knowingly been in any business deal with him.

A land transaction in which Rosenzweig and his brother, Newton, profited involved five corporations and a real estate tract just outside Phoenix khown as the Rose Garden. Two key men were Warren associates Albert Kramer and Burton Bentley, operators of Arizona Valley Development, which purchased another Warren-connected company, Lake Montezuma. In the transaction, Phoenix Advertising Club noted in naming him 1975 man of the year. There is another view of Rosenzweig. In a five-month investigation, IRE learned that the longtime chairman of the state Republican Party attempted to influence local justice, and profited in a real estate transaction in which land fraud czar Ned Warren Sr.

was hidden in the background. The Rosenzweig approval was a virtual necessity in Arizona for those seeking some city, county, state and federal office during Republican administrations. One lawyer who wanted to become an assistant U.S. attorney told IRE that he made his first bid for the job to Rosenzweig at his jewelry store. "That was the way it was done," he said with a shrug.

Rosenzweig's task was not without its rewards. For a time, for example, he cary ried two highly valuable "pocket" liqiwr licenses, issued by the state Liquor Board, Warren obtained a management consultant and profit pay-back arrangement from Arizona Valley. Arizona Valley was then sold to Fuqua Industries, an Atlanta-based conglomerate. Warren was then receiving from Fuqua the former Montezuma management consultant fees and profits pay-backs, while his associates Kramer and Bentley maintained official positions with the new Fuqua subsidiary. Larry Klamon, a Fuqua vice president, said the company depended on Kramer for advice on Arizona land investments.

Kramer suggested that Fuqua buy the Rose Garden property, which was owned by a group of Phoenix investors including Harry and Newton Rosenzweig, who together owned 10 per cent. Purchased in 1955 for $1,000 an acre with the expectation that the land would grow in value as the city of Phoenix moved closer, the property became something of a problem when Phoenix expansion bypassed it. Various efforts to sell it fell through. cessful businessman, civic leader and philanthropist who has worked long and hard to make the city a prosperous, progressive diamond in the desert. "His efforts to improve the commu the Rose Garden property for $5,050 an acre.

Advance Realty received about as a real estate fee in the deal and the Rosenzweigs netted $173,000. The first sale stimulated the sale of the rest of the land in which the Rosenzweigs netted about $215,000. Thus, Warren used someone else's money to benefit his old pal Rich and, in the process, the Rosenzweigs and the other investors. These sales came after, Rosenzweig says, he lost $10,000 through another War-continued on Page SA, Col. 1) local nity and make respectable its political system through persuading good candidates to seek office made the greatest contribution to the state's two-party system in the past decade," the FINAL Edition Slutf FINAL Edition INDIANS ANGERED.

Local Indians will ask for the resignation today of Grover Banks, a black, as director of the Tucson Indian Center. They feel that an Indian should have been appointed. Page IB. HEALTH SERVICES. The Desert Willow Training Center on Tanque Verde where for nearly a decade Indians and government employes have been trained in health services, will close June 30 in a move to decentralize such training.

Page 2E. MAIL FRAUD. Two Tucson land developers are sentenced to prison and fined a total of $42,000 on charges of mail fraud and violation of securities laws in separate cases. Page 4A. VOL 136 NO.

75 TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1977 15 CENTS 60 PAGES 3 Cut state in anzona PRISON STRIKE. A deputy warden says inmates at the Arizona State Prison will eventually get tired of the work strike and "burn the place down or go back to work." Page IE. WHAT NOW? Baseball's newest guessing game is being played in the Arizona spring for prop many camps as well as in the office of Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Does Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley intend to rebuild his club or give the American League a third expansion team for the coming season? Former Oakland third Bando ft 1 1 1 baseman Sal Bando thinks it would be best if Finley gets out of baseball. Page IF.

Reduce the state income tax by lowering the graduated tax rate by a half per cent at each step and giving tax credits for low-income persons. Now, Arizonans are charged 2 per cent of their first $1,000 of net income. The rate increases by steps to 8 per cent for incomes above $7,000. The cost would be $31.4 million. Give tax credits as large as $225 to elderly persons with limited incomes at an estimated cost of $7.8 million.

Institute the "teeter-totter" rule for state and local government, which automatically reduces the tax rate as assessed value increases unless officials vote publicly to raise the rate. The House tax plan would replace ttu homeowners tax rebate, which amounted to $35 million this year. Like the rebate, taxpayers would receive bigger lax reductions if their homes are worth more, However, the income-tax portion of the plan would give persons with lower incomes a larger tax break in terms of a percentage of income. The House panel is expected to consider the measure a 39-page amendment to a bill next week. Unlike the Senate's $67 million tax-relief program based largely on Gov.

Raul Castro's recommendations the House proposal calls for permanent tax cuts in- Senate subcommittee to. study state appraisal Page 5B. stead of one-year reductions. The Senate plan, which gives homeowners an average $96 tax break, has cleared that body and awaits House action. The House program, which includes two tax measures already approved by the House, in addition to the properly and income-tax changes would: Abolish the state property tax on residential property at a cost of $32.2 million next year.

Now, the state rale is $1.60 per $100 of assessed valuation, about 13 per cent of the total property tax rate on average Arizona homes. By BOB LOWE The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX State income-tax bills would drop to nothing for 284,000 Arizonans roughly 39 per cent of those now paying taxes under a permanent $71 million tax-relief plan presented by House leaders yesterday. The proposal also abolishes the state property tax on residential property and substantially reduces tax bills for those who would still owe money under the state income tax. The House majority leader, Rep. Burton Barr, R-Phoenix, presented the tax-cut proposal to the House Ways and Means Committee, saying, "This is the first attempt in a long time to deal with a permanent tax change." Barr estimated that the average taxpayer with a home ranging in value from to $25,000 and income from $12,000 to $15,000 would see income and property tax reductions ranging from $100 to $105 next year under the plan.

national VEGA GOING? The General Motors Corp. will drop its Chevrolet Vega after this model year, the Detroit News reports. The Vega's sister car, the Pontiac Astre, may also go, the paper says. Page 7F. FOREIGN INVASION.

The controversy over the use of foreign athletes, especially in track and field, continues to rage in the light of the foreign domination in the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. indoor track championships. Page IF. City's 'on-call detectives' global Watching pays off for TAC INDIA'S ELECTION. A parliamentary election both' sides consider crucial to the future of democracy in India begins today, with 318 million eligible voters making it the largest exercise of popular franchise in human history.

Page 9A. The claw that devoured Tucson Part of irvington anyway. The monster shovel an ordinary backhoe, really is about to grab a chunk of earth in a street-improvement project, not worker Rick Robinson. Below, meanwhile, Favor Gause waits in a 16-foot-deep trench for piping to be used in a sewer line, which is part of the R. E.

Miller Paving and Construction project. Irvington is being widened west of Park Ave. (Star photo by Jack Sheaffer) comment to the uniform division after four years with the TAC. Grimshaw said that in his 1 1 years on the force, he has witnessed only two armed robberies. The robbery suspects left the Grant Rd.

area shortly after the TAC officers arrived. The officers took turns tailing the pickup truck to the bar parking lot on N. Flowing Wells Rd. near the Quik-Mart. The officers parked across the street and watched as one of the men in the truck got out and walked to the store.

Through binoculars, they saw him get change from the clerk and go to the phone booth outside. When he entered the store a second time, the man took a gun from his pocket, demanded money from the clerk, got it and fled. But the police were waiting. They identified the suspect as Bruce D. Porter of Glendale.

He and another Glen-dale man waiting in the pickup truck, Richard Trueblood, 19, were booked into the Pima County Jail on armed-robbery charges. Trueblood was released without bail yesterday on the responsibility of a person who was not identified, and Porter was being held in lieu of $11,000 bond on the robbery charge and a parole violation. A 16-year-old girl in the pickup truck was charged with armed robbery and taken to the Pima County Juvenile Court Center. KT EDITORIALS. A state Senate bill permitting pharmacists to fill prescriptions with generic drugs could save consumers countless dollars Freeing three Hanafi Muslim terrorists was a shockingly irresponsible act that invites future terrorism The devastation of Kentucky farmland by strip-miners has been halted.

Page 10A. A index to i j' .51 11 'f --i-', Movies 6C Names Faces (A Public Records 8C. Solomon, M.D. CD Sports 1-5F Tucson Today 3C TV-Radio 9B Actualidades 4B Bridge 9B Comment 19-11 A Crossword 8B Financial S-7F Horoscope 7C Lifestyle 1-4C 17 si By TOM BEAL The Arizona Daily Star The armed robber fleeing from the Quik-Mart at 4611 N. Flowing Wells Rd.

threw his gun in the air and fell to the ground when the five police cars pulled up Monday night. He had been heading for a getaway vehicle parked at a nearby bar. But what he didn't know was that he and his two alleged accomplices had been under surveillance for an hour. They had aroused the suspicion of officer Carl Jennings by parking their truck and then walking a block to a 7-Eleven on N. Flowing Wells Rd.

But Jennings knew that staying nearby in his marked police car would only frighten the suspected crook, so he called for the TAC squad. TAC Tactical Operations Force officers are the Police "on-call detectives," according to Lt. Richard Czech, who heads the force. They are summoned to assist uniformed officers in a variety of tasks, from directing traffic at an accident scene to bird-dogging an armed robber. The force is divided into four teams, each consisting of a sergeant and four patrolmen, and unless they are on special assignment, they patrol their areas much like uniformed officers.

"The key to the operation is flexbility," Czech said. TAC members' ability to switch jobs when a tip requires it enables them to make arrests like the one Monday, Czech said. A few minutes after Jennings spotted the truck and its suspicious occupants, three TAC cars were in the area. Officers Dave Hock and Brian Jones were in two of the unmarked cars and the third was shared by Sgt. Ray Grimshaw and Sgt.

James Davis. Davis called himself the group's "lucky charm," because the robbery arrest happened on his first night with the TAC. He is taking over for Grimshaw, who is switching Billy Carter fee to be $10,000 The Pima Town and Country Fair will pay Billy Carter $10,000 for his participation in opening-day ceremonies and two other public appearances. Carter, brother of the president, will join Gov. Raul Castro on April 15 to open the nine-day fair, it was confirmed yesterday.

Later that day, Carter is to "visit with fans, philosophize, mix and mingle," said fair officials, and give humorous talks in stage appearances. Fair officials said a condition of Carter's contract forbids discussing his fee, but a knowledgeable source confirmed that Carter was charging $10,000 for the Tucson I. ii i Bane or boon? if you can't beat 'em, burn 'em. That's an idea being studied by University of Arizona scientists Aden and Marjorie Meinel. (Star photo by Art Grasberger) Scientists see tumbleweeds as fuel source By ELIZABETH MAGGlO The Arizona Daily Star Don't curse the tumbling tumble-weed.

It could be a cheaply grown source of fuel for the future, according to a University of Arizona husband-wife research team. Dr. Aden B. Meinel, professor of astronomy and optical sciences, and Marjorie Meinel, research associate in optical sciences, have been taking a second look at the often disparaged tumbleweed, also known as Russian thistle. They feel that if the weeds can be kept from blowing in the wind, they can be grown for fuel, with profits comparable to other major crops.

Tumbleweeds, which don't need irrigation or fertilizer, would be an ideal crop for arid regions like Arizona, where the price of water is going up and supplies are dwindling, said the Meinels, who plan to investigate their idea further. The team is best known for research into solar energy. They got the tumbleweed idea last year while visiting the peat bogs of Ireland, said Mrs. Meinel. Weeds are overtaking part of the bogs, and a peat miner asked Meinel what to do.

"He said why not harvest them and burn them for fuel," she recalled. Back home, the Meinels started thinking about the West's resident weed, which is really a native of Russia brought into this country in the 1880s in contaminated flax seed shipments. l-lV .1 They did some quick calculations fl onH octimatoH ttvjt tVio hant onnrmt Fuel-exhaustion warning issued WASHINGTON (AP) Transportation Secretary Brock Adams said yesterday that Americans must begin preparing for the day when "the gas runs out" and they can no longer freely drive their automobiles. "We must look to the ultimate exhaustion of the oil supplies that keep the transportation running," Adams said in an interview in which he outlined several ideas his department is considering for the future. Those ideas include designing autos with greater fuel efficiency, building mass-transit systems that attract people from cars, designing cities around mass transit and developing electrically powered cars, which Adams said could become the "vehicle of the future." Adams said many of the ideas will be incorporated into the comprehensive energy plan President Carter intends to send to Congress April 20.

He said a major goal of the administration plan will be to educate citizens on the fact that their transportation habits will have to be changed, that some day they will be "unable any longer to use their automobiles as they do now." "In the next four to eight years, we have to basically build into the United States the idea of the alternative systems that are more energy-efficient, that will be evolving into the system we will have to use when oil and gas if they haven't yet run out completely will not be cheap fuels the secretary said. given off by tumbleweeds is comparable to most other plants and slightly less than wood. One possible use for the tumble-weed compressed into easily burned pellets would be as a substitute for wood in underdeveloped nations. After drying and weighing tumble-weeds collected from the Tucson desert, they figured a tumbleweed farmer could grow about II tons per acre. This could earn around $200, based on their estimate of the tumble-weed's fuel value.

The recent U.S. average return on cotton is about $105 per acre, peanuts $265 per acre and wheat $400 per acre, according to the Meinels..