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106th YEAR STATE TUCSON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1982 A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER 25 52 PAGES ii i ii i STATE EDiTl .4 ,4 H. It y. -2 1 4 BEN LOMOND, Calif. (AP) Rescue workers yesterday dug through tons of mud loosed by a violent rainstorm that killed at least 24 people, forced the Golden Gate Bridge to close for almost 20 hours and caused an estimated $100 million damage. Gov.

Jerry Brown formally asked President Reagan for disaster aid, and the White House was studying the request. More than 200 National Guardsmen were stationed in a 200-mile-long flood-stricken area from Sonoma County south-to Santa Cruz County. Much of Santa Cruz County was without electricity and heat, food and water were running short, many bridges and roadways were impassable, and 100 to 500 people were isolated by mudslides and storm debris, said Gary Patton, chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He said more than 100 homes in the county were destroyed. The death toll from the storm stood at 24 by last night, and it could double if the worst fears of officials in Santa Cruz County are realized.

Up to 20 people were trapped when a mountainside collapsed at 2 a.m. Monday and washed over 300 acres of expensive homes in this wooded Santa Cruz County community about 60 miles south of San Francisco, witnesses said. One body was found, and rescue teams, stalled more than two days by fog and mud, expected to find more. It was clear across much of California yesterday, and the break in the rain allowed searchers to dig through debris from mudslides. The National Weather Service said yesterday more rain is expected Sunday and Monday in the Bay Area.

Earl Robertson, spokesman for the rescue effort, was asked if there was any hope for residents caught in the slide here. "If there's anybody in there no," he replied. Also yesterday, 10 miles south of San Francisco in Pacifica, the body of Billy Velez was recovered from the rubble where the bodies of his sisters, Michelle, 13, and Melissa-, 4, were found eight hours earlier. The sleeping children were- killed Monday night as a mudslide forced a house on top of their home. North of San Francisco in Marin County, where 80 homes were leveled by mudslides and another 150 were damaged, officials feared that a slide Tuesday night See DEATHS COULD, Page 4A 1 1 a 1 1 un'-1 I v.

Cochise County to get its first TV station iff rasW.t-nV-ViO By David Hatfield The Arizona Dally Star Construction will begin in about three months on Cochise County's first television station, and the station should go on the air in about a year, officials of Sierra Vista Television Inc. said yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission has granted permission for the station to operate on UHF Channel 58. John Kapranopoulos, general manager of Mark Advertising Consultants Inc. in Sierra Vista and treasurer of Sierra Vista Television, said the new station will be a commercial independent outlet geared primarily for viewers in Cochise County.

"There are 80,000 people living in Cochise County, and there is currently no countywide media," said Jon Brown, a former Sierra Vista mayor and radio news director who is involved with the new station. He said his group feels the time is right for such a station to bring together the issues and concerns of the entire county. Most viewers in Cochise County have access to television through cable-TV systems, which bring in the Tucson stations and a variety of other services. Channel 58's offices, studios and transmitter are to be constructed on Arizona Highway 92 south of Sierra Vista, Kapranopoulos said. The station will broadcast with an effective radiated power of 2.388 million watts, but mountainous terrain is expected to block the station's signal from reaching much of Tucson.

When Channel 58 begins its operations around Jan. 1, 1983, it will broadcast about 18 hours a day. he said. The principals involved in Sierra Vista Television Inc. are Thomas Gramatikas, the group's president and also president of the Sierra Vista Health and Racquet-ball Club; Carole E.

Smith and Gloria Williams, both Sierra Vista housewives; and Kapranopoulos. 4ft Jack W. Shcsfftr, TIM Ariiww Mly Mar Toupee, or not toupee Joe Desert Ark touring show, during yesterday's GaragioJa models the latest in hairpieces: La Tucson Open pro-am at Randolph North Golf Vaga, a 14-year-old ring-tailed cat from the Course. Tucson Open stories on Page 1G. exican produce moving, hut strike slows the flow Main business for legislators to be austerity By John DeWitt The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX Money and crime issues ap-parently will dominate the regular session of the Arizona Legislature, which opens Monday Senate and House Republicans have agreed on general areas for majority programs, and leaders of both houses cite "general austerity in government" as their No.

1 priority. Senate President Leo Corbet said austerity' will dominate the session. Because of the national recession, state revenues are falling short of projections, and state agency heads and legislators are looking for ways to cut back. House Majority Leader Burton Barr said any increased funding for state agencies will have to be offset by cuts in other agencies' budgets Barr particularly cited the Department of Corrections, which has asked for $23.9 million in supplemental appropriations to expand the new Tucson medium-security prison. Corrections Director Ellis MacDougall also says new prisons will be-needed.

Additonally, Barr said, lawmakers want to "piggyback" state income taxes onto federal in-. come taxes, a move that would reduce state revenues about $31 million over the next two years. Piggybacking would involve making Arizona's income-tax system reflect the Reagan administration's tax reductions. The state will lose another $40 million by keeping homeowner property-tax increases to 2 per- See MONEY, Page 5A Coyote shot in city didn't have rabies A coyote that police officers chased for more than an hour and finally killed in a midtown yard on New Year's Eve was not rabid. Laboratory tests showed that the animal did not have the disease, officials at the Pima Animal Control Center said yesterday.

Police joined rabies-control officials to catch the coyote- after residents called to report it was acting strangely. "It's not normal for a coyote to show itself in broad daylight," an officer said. The officer said 'the coyote was also moving abnormally and "may have been frothing at the mouth." He said it was reasonable to assume the animal could be rabid, and that shooting it was necessary to prevent the coyote from biting someone and possibly spreading rabies. Sex offender is guilty of 10 freeway killings north with full cargoes, but said they are stopping empty trailers returning south to the produce-growing regions. "The strike has reached the national level now," Gomez said.

"So the only route available to the growers now is by train." Gomez said 150 railroad cars full of produce arrived in Nogales, yesterday. That, he said, is triple the average daily train load, but still well below the average daily shipments by truck. "So far, it's looking pretty good," Gomez said of the interim transportation, "but later on we may see some serious damage." Harvey Carr, president of the Nogales-based West Mexico Vegetables Distributors Association said yesterday that "shipments are dropping here rapidly. If the strike continues, tomorrow's volume is going to drop drastically." The official with the highway patrol, who asked not to be identified, said Sonora Gov. Samuel Ocana met with trucker representatives Tuesday.

Because some of their complaints focus on alleged corruption by the highway patrol, Ocana helped arrange for a Mexico City meeting today with the secretary of the interior, the official said. He said he had spoken with the truckers and "they don't know what they want. It's disgraceful. Their charges are a pack of lies. Eighty percent of the truckers are against the strike.

The whole thing was started by outside agitators who are not even truck drivers." The official said the truckers' demands for job security, life-insurance benefits and protection from paying higher diesel costs are more By Ray Panzarella The Arizona Daily Star NOGALES, Ariz. Local produce shipments from Mexico continued to decline here yesterday, even though truckers in the fifth day of a strike were reportedly allowing passage of shipments of perishable goods and gasoline. A Mexican train shipment of heating fuel was en route to Nogales, where sources told The Associated Press a shortage was so acute that 20 maquiladoras (border plants) run by American companies might close by Friday. Arthur Doan, a former mayor of Nogales, said last night that the fuel problem will be alleviated by the arrival of the fuel, which is expected today. Faustino Davila Aguirre, president of the National Chamber for Industrial Transformation, about 100,000 liters of fuel oil was sent by train yesterday morning from Guaymas, to Nogales.

"With this oil supply there won't be any need for shutting down the plants for lack of heat," he said. The Mexican truckers say highway patrolmen routinely demand bribes and often delay them for hours on fabricated charges. A high official with the Mexican Highway Patrol said that although 1,500 truckers have stopped working in Sonora, they are still allowing trucks loaded with fresh produce and gasoline to continue to Nogales from the Sonoran capital of Hermo-sillo. Hector Gomez, regional director for the National Union of Produce Growers, agreed that the striking truckers are not stopping trucks headed Superior Court Judge William Keene told jurors that they would have to choose between sentencing Bonin to death or to life in prison without There are about 50 men on death row in California, which has not had an execution since 1967. During the trial, jurors saw and heard some of the most gruesome evidence ever presented in a Los Angeles courtroom, including photographs of mutilated bodies and chilling accounts of torture.

The state's key witnesses were two confessed accomplices -r- James Munro, 20, of Port Huron, and Gregory Miley, 20, of Bellflower, Calif. who testified against Bonin in a plea bargain that let them escape the death penalty. They told of torturing boys picked up by Bonin in his van. They said many willingly submitted to homosexual acts but were beaten and killed. They said Bonin tormented victims and strangled some by tightening wires or T-shirts around their necks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) William Bonin, a twice-paroled sex offender, was convicted yesterday as the Freeway Killer who tortured, sodomized and murdered 10 young men and boys a verdict that may send him to the gas chamber. Bonin, 34, was acquitted of killing Thomas Lundgren and Sean King, both 1 and also was found innocent of three secondary charges. He was convicted on 10 murder counts and 10 counts of robbing his victims. The panel will consider the sentence during the penalty phase of the trial that begins today. All of the victims were found dumped near Southern California freeways since 1972, and the verdicts culminated an inquiry into 44 similar slayings.

Investigators say not all of the cases may be related. Bonin's attorney, William Charvet, said he will try to save Bonin's life. He said Bonin's "Vietnam experiences" and prison troubles will be cited as mitigating factors. Weather Lifestyle A taste for speed. Though the roar from the racing ovals has stilled for former Indianapolis 500 driver Bill Holland, he relives bits of a colorful past in an interview at his Tucson home.

Page 1C. Money "5i 4 nu I-- rr -jeLmJ Below estimate. Whatever the reason, and there are several theories, Tucson contractors are consistently bidding below estimate. Page IF. News Block-grant worries.

"Special-needs students" should get top priority when federal block-grant education money is allocated, an advisory panel is told. Page IB. Corbett balks. Saying that to cut his budget are like letting the proverbial camel get his nose in the tent, Superior Court Clerk Jim Corbett adds that he doesn't want the cuts directed at him. Page IB.

Work release. The state corrections department says 14 percent of inmates released on work furloughs in a 2'-year period were returned to custody, contradicting its earlier figure of 5 percent. Page IE. Boarding houses in Florence, a couple arrested for allegedly kidnapping five elderly women from a Florida boarding house had been operating two unlicensed boarding homes in Florence, officers say. PteSA.

-t Sorry, golfers. Today will continue to be cloudy and there is a chance of scattered showers. A high in the upper 50s and a low in the mid-40s are expected. Yesterday's high and low were 59 and 48. Colorado had heavy snowfall yesterday, and Steamboat Springs reported 23 inches of new snow.

Snow continued over the Great Lakes, and snow squalls developed in the Northeast. In contrast, temperature readings in the upper 70s and the 80s broke records for the date in Texas and Florida. Snow will reach from northern New England across New York state, Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, then change to rain from New Jersey to northern Florida today. Snow will be scattered from northwest Texas into Northern Arizona, changing to rain over southern New Mexico and Arizona. Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 39 below zero at Glasgow, and .89 at McAllen, Texas.

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