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FINAL 101ST YEAR mm mm top of the news weather 15 CENTS 46 PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1977 VOL 136 NO. 251 WARM DAYS, MILD NIGHTS. That's the forecast, along with partly cloudy afternoons, through tomorrow. No rain is expected Today's high should be about 100, with an overnight low near 75. Yesterday's high and low were 101 and 75.

Former Hurricane Babe, now a low-pressure center, is moving east It dumped heavy rains on Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina yesterday. Thunderstorms are forecast for the Atlantic and Gulf coast states and the southern Appalachians. Mild temperatures are expected for the northern half of the U.S. Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 116 at Palm Springs and 38 at Kalispell, Mont Details on Page4A. "jP soldier, one of thousands who have guarded the Panama Canal, watches vessel passing through.

Pi ties by failing to ratify the treaty by a required two-thirds vote. That vote is expected to come next year. Officials here believe Senate rejection of the treaty would trigger guerrilla warfare and mob violence in the Canal Zone similar to the riots that erupted there in 1964. In his text for the occasion, Carter said the treaty serves the best interests of both the United States and Panama and added that it "forms a new partnership to insure that this vital waterway will continue to be well-operated, safe and open to shipping of all nations now and in the future." He noted that the canal will not be under total Panamanian control for 23 years and said that even "after that, the United States will still be able to counter any threat to the canal's neutrality." local ABORTION CURB. Concerned that poor women will again be forced to seek illegal and unsafe abortions, local feminist groups express outrage at the Board of Supervisors' decision to halt county funding of elective abortions.

Page IB. CHANGES IN SOUND. Tucson has two new orchestra conductors: George Traut-wein with the Tucson Symphony and Leonard A. Pearlman with the University of Arizona Orchestra. But a season or two may pass before the community hears the changes both men wish to bring about.

Page 4C. TUCSON NATIONAL WOES. The owner and developer of Tucson National Golf Club and Estates says he will be forced to close the golf course if the area is exempted from the Tortolita Area Plan and annexed by Oro Valley. Page 4B. BUSY MEN'S WIVES.

The president, the football coach and the basketball coach at the University of Arizona work around the clock at their jobs. Not always in the spotlight, but always in support of their husbands are their wives Helen Schaefer, Carolyn Mason and Mae Snow-den. They fill their mm uvea wiui jn cvciiu, but they also have interests of their own. Schaefer PagelC. anzona BOLLES TRIAL.

The judge in the Don Bolles murder trial agrees to a defense request that the jury visit two sites where the bomb plot allegedly was discussed. Judge Howard Thompson also permits attorneys for defendant Max Dunlap to question John Adamson about his past crimes and plea-bargaining agreement, although lawyers for co-defendant James Robison opposed this. Adamson is expected to testify today. Page IB. national LANCE REPORTED QUITTING.

Congressional sources say Bert Lance is expected to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget after he defends himself on live television next Thursday in an appearance before a Senate committee. PageUA. TRACY TERRIFIC BEATEN. Tracy Austin, whose Cinderella story includes a straight-set victory over fourth-seeded Sue Barker, is ousted from the U.S. Open tennis championships by Betty Stove of the Netherlands.

Stove says she didn't see Tracy, only the ball. Page ID. global W. GERMAN KIDNAPING. Terrorist kidnapers of W.

German industrial leader rianns Martin Schleyer demand freedom for 11 imprisoned terrorists, nearly half a million dollars and a flight out of the country. PagelA. index Bridge 7B Classified 7-18C Comics IB Comment It-HA Crossword IB Financial I-7D Horoscope SC Lifestyle 1-JC Movies SC IKslo itoT ilc Public Records' Solomon, M.D. JC fe i Mason Snowden A 1 JL As part of the treaty festivities, and the first hemisphere summit meeting ever held here, Carter met privately with the 18 government heads who have gathered for the occasion. In meeting after meeting, Carter pursued such favorite topics as human rights, arms-spending restraint and an end to nuclear proliferation.

Subjected to some domestic criticism for "meeting with dictators," the U.S. president expressed confidence that frank exchanges about problem areas was "healthy for us and healthy for them." Carter used that expression in reporting on an hour-long session Tuesday night with Gen. Agusto Pinochet, the head of the military junta that rules Chile. of Tucson, the Silver Bell unit northwest of Tucson, and the Sacaton unit near Casa Grande would not resume because of an excess of copper in the company's inventories. The duration of the suspensions is indefinite, but will be reviewed after one month, an Asarco spokesman said.

The announcement affects approximately 750 employes at the Mission site, 280 at Silver Bell and 270 at Sacaton, which closes tomorrow. Magma blamed low copper prices and a (Continued on Page 4A, Col. 7) PARHAM Daily Star month later the deal was off. The company would reportedly have spent about $70 million here and employed 2,000 initially. Cyrus McCalley, the local businessman who was attempting to secure options on the property, said five owners among the 34 parcels involved raised their prices, but that the "final straw" was a 50 per cent increase by U-Haul International, Inc.

A letter from the company dated May 23 nlA 11 Um.l wantAjf f7Cl MA tk. 3cuu vnaui waiiicu ffjvfvw iui uic nupci- ty- McCalley had sent option papers to the company based on the original price of $500,000. The letter said the company was returning McCalley's option papers. The assessor's estimated value on the property is nearly $231,000. Based on the letter sent to McCalley, (Continued on Page 4A, Cat I) or be killed padc An American WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter signed the historic and much-debated Panama Canal treaty last night, hailing it as "a symbol of mutual respect and cooperation." He joined Panama's ruling general, Omar Torrijos, in signing the agreement that at the end of this century could finally give Panama control of the waterway carved through its midsection more than 63 years ago.

The signing ceremony at the Organization of American States building climaxed what may have been Washington's biggest extravaganza a three-day affair of talks and social activities attended by leaders of numerous Western Hemisphere nations. Torrijos bluntly told the glittering diplomatic audience in the Hall of the Americas 1 1 ft Asarco will idle 3 Arizona mines, laying off 1,300 By ARMANDO DURAZO and STEPHEN B. SHERRETTA The Arizona Dally Star Asarco, will not resume mining operations at three Arizona mines, two near Tucson, and will lay off 1,300 miners for an indefinite period, the company announced last night. The announcement came after ratification of a three-year contract between striking unions and company officials. It comes on the heels of a 600-man work force reduction announced by the Magma Copper Co.

The actions will bring the total number of Arizona miners laid off to 8,400. Charles W. Campbell, general manager of Asarco's Western Mining said mining operations at the Mission mine south dent who began the canal negotiations 13 years ago. The audience for the colorful ceremony also included representatives of 25 other nations and two former secretaries of state, Henry Kissinger and William Rogers. Carter said the new treaty marks "the commitment of the United States to the belief that fairness and not force should lie at the heart of our dealings with the nations of the world." Although the treaty ends 13 years of negotiations inspired by violence and the threat of violence along the canal that links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, celebrations over the pact may be premature.

The canal treaty has won much more acclaim in Latin America than it has in the U.S. Senate, which could nullify the festivi year but where any earlier instruction is up to individual schools. The district relies "pretty much (for sex education) on the planning of the principals," said Florence Reynolds, deputy superintendent. Left on their own, some junior high principals and teachers have developed health (Continued on Page 4A, CoL Z) Nolan said Radovich also fired a shot out a window to attract attention and tried to throw the gun through a closed window. The window broke, but the gun feD back inside the room, and Mrs.

Radovich got it and reloaded it Radovich managed to crawl to another room, followed by his wife, who then shot him in the mouth, Nolan said. But he made his way to another bedroom where he broke a window in another attempt to attract attention. that it was time to end "a colonial conquest of our country." And be emphasized that the new agreement faces vocal opposition in his country. Directly lecturing members of the U.S. Senate, which is sharply split on whether to ratify the accord, Torrijos quoted Abraham Panama's "maximum leader" is popular with people.

Page 8A. Lincoln: "Statesmen think of future generations while politicians think of the next election." Carter departed from his own text to salute former President Gerald R. Ford and Lady Bird Johnson, widow of the U.S. presi On Tuesday, Margaret E. Duncan, director of the county Health DepL's education division, called on public schools to develop sex education programs.

She said that at present, decisions to offer sex education "depend on individual teachers and school principals." Duncan's statement applies primarily to Tucson School District One, where sex education is required during the sophomore Tuesday in a second-floor condominium in a comfortable new building in the suburb of Homewood, southwest of Chicago. It ended at 3 a.m. Wednesday. Police said Margaret Radovich, 50, shot her husband, Theodore, 56, twice in the chest while he slept Tuesday morning. "When he regained consciousness (early Wednesday), he found his wife next to him in bed and pulled the gun out of her hand, shooting her once in each leg," said Police Chief William Nolan.

Land price hikes blamed as big firm shuns city President Carter and Panama's Omar Torrijos embrace after signing canal accord. a Sex education no longer shocks By LINDA ROACH MONROE The Arizona Dauy Star S-E-X, that three-letter word that raised hackles in Tucson less than 10 years ago, brings hardly a shrug these days from parents whose children are being taught about the subject That was the consensus yesterday of educators whose schools have adopted sex education as part of regular health courses. By MARIA The Arizona Tucson lost a chance to have a multimillion-dollar international company move here because several landowners increased their prices after being approached by the firm, the businessman who worked on the project has charged. As a result. County Assessor Stephen E.

Emetine has assigned appraisal personnel to go over the 200-acre area near Interstate 10 and W. Prince Rd. with a "fine-tooth comb" to assure that county tax records accurately reflect each parcel's full cash value. Emerine said the team will attempt to follow the law exactly in setting property values there because the assessor's current estimated value is only a fraction of the price being asked by some landowners. Plans for the project by the unidentified company were revealed in mid-July, but a battle to kill Meanwhile, Nolan said, Mrs.

Radovich shot herself. When police arrived after being summoned by neighbors, they found Mrs. Radovich on the floor in a hallway and her husband in a bedroom. Police said that before they could reach Mrs. Radovich, she took one more shot at her husband through a doorway, but the bullet missed.

She feD unconscious and was dead on arrival at a hospital. Nolan said authorities had found notes apparently written by Mrs. Radovich that "said such things as life being tough and Wife dead, husband 'critical' in bloody Judge recalled for rape remarks MADISON, Wis. (AP) Dane County Judge Archie Simonson, whose remarks linking sexual permissiveness with rape created a furor in this liberal university community, was defeated in a recall election yesterday by a woman attorney with strong feminist backing. In unofficial final returns, with aO 137 of Dane County's wards reporting, Moria Krueger had 27.244 votes.

Simonson, whose regular six-year term as judge would have expired next April, had 18,435. Assistant family court commissioner Daniel Moeser was third with 15,250 votes, followed by three other Madison attorneys: William Bradford Smith with 8,446, Robert Burr with 5,190 and Worth Piper with Simonson, 52, took an early lead in rural areas but quickly feO to second place as Madison ballots were counted. He was forced into the recall election by a petition drive after he made comments from the bench linking rape to certain ways in which women dress. HOMEWOOD. m.

(AP) A depressed and jealous wife shot her husband while he slept, but he revived nearly 20 hours later and shot her with the same gun, police said. Then she shot him again with the revolver as they crawled bleeding from room to room. It ended after police arrived. They said the woman, who had turned the gun on herself by that point, fired a final shot at her husband, collapsed and died. Her husband was in critical condition.

a Police said the episode began at 7 a.m. difficult, and one note made reference to another woman." "It appeared that she was very upset over probably a number of things," Nolan said. "She indicated that life was too tough for her and had been too tough for her all of ber life." Police said Mrs. Radovich recently bought the handgun without telling her husband, and had arranged the couple's insurance papers in a shoe box with explanatory notes for anyone who found them. Ponce would not say whether they had children or where Radovich worked 1.

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