Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 30

005 PAGE FOUR SECTION THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1980 Health official says smoke in rail yard not excessive An inspection of the Southern Pacific Railroad yards found no engines emitting excessive smoke, a state health official said yesterday. The inspection came after some residents 1 living north of the Tucson yard, west of the Palo Verde Boulevard overpass, complained earlier this year about fuel smells and noise. On humid mornings, they said, the odor was especially intense, making them feel ill, and the noise kept them awake. "They (the engines) are all within the required limits," said Ben Peoples, area manager for the Bureau of Vehicular Emissions in the Arizona Department of Health Services. "We do, however, agree that there is a strong odor of diesel fuel in that area," he said.

VID NUC He attributed the strong odor to the refueling operations. "A little bit slops over," he said. The complaints came more than 20 years after several neighbors had opposed building the yard near their homes. Since then, the railroad has centered most of its fueling and switching activities for east and westbound trains between the Palo Verde and 22nd Street overpasses. Zent pleads innocent to fraud William F.

Zent pleaded innocent yester- rive in El Centro, within a week for day in Pima County Superior Court to three a business meeting. charges relating to an unsuccessful construction project he promoted in Saudi Ara- Law-enforcement authorities in El Cenbia in 1977-78. tro said they expect to file charges against Court Commissioner Gordon S. Kipps Alfred Zent in connection with $69,000 allegset an Oct. 30 trial for Zent, charged with he edly operated there a i taken from health-insurance agency in 1978.

obtaining money by fraudulent scheme or artifice, conspiracy to commit fraud, and grand theft. Murphy said El Centro sheriff's investigators want to question Alfred Zent about The venture, in which investors lost a the scheme before charges are alleged reported $3.2 million, called for construc- filed. tion of a large industrial complex and housing developments in Saudi Arabia. In Texas, the FBI has issued a warrant Free on $11,000 bond, Zent is staying at for Alfred Zent's arrest on charges of flight a Tucson hotel: to avoid prosecution. He was convicted in 6 Zent's brother, Alfred, who was also in- Texas on security-fraud charges, and fled dicted on the same charges, is being sought before his appeal papers were filed in the by law-enforcement authorities in Califor- Texas Court of Appeals.

nia, Arizona and Texas. Imperial County (Calif.) Deputy Sheriff Deputy County Attorney Richard Mike Murphy said yesterday that Alfred Strohm, who is prosecuting William Zent, Zent had been seen this week in San Fran- said the two men will face trial together if Alfred Alfred Zent is arrested in time. WILLIAM F. ZENT cisco. Murphy predicted would ar- EL STORE WEEKDAYS 9 HOURS 10 -MARKET GRANDE MOT EL GRANDE MKT 80.

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BEER CAN 12 PACK $329 NOT COLD OLD MILWAUKEE BEER 12 CAN oz. $298 NOT COLD 12 PAK Voter registrants boost big parties; 'others' gain The Arizona Democrats and Republicans in Pima County have more than made up for last year's purge of registrants who did not vote in the 1978 election. But an increasing percentage of voters are unaffiliated, independent or members of minor parties in the final tally of those who registered in time for the Sept. 9 primary election. The 24,591 voters who registered as neither Democrats nor Republicans now represent 11.3 percent of the electorate compared with 9.3 percent in November 1979.

Except for the 487 Libertarians in that number, those voters will have no primary vote, but will be able to cast ballots in the Nov. 3 general election. Those who have not yet registered have until Sept. 15 to register for the November election. Currently, 216,276 people are registered county voters.

They represent 61 percent of the estimated 357,000 county residents over 18, according to County Recorder Joe Bedard, who released the figures yesterday. In November 1979 shortly after the purge of 1978 non-voters who failed to reregister, just 44 percent of the estimated eligible electorate was on the rolls. Since November, Democrats have boosted their registration from 83,719 to 111,543. The Republican total grew from 58,913 to 80,142 in the same period. GOP numerical registration has never been higher in Pima County, but the Democrats still lag behind their registration of 114,070 for the 1976 presidential election.

"We're in good shape," said county Republican Chairman Emmett McLoughlin. He noted that the GOP has a bigger percentage of the two-party vote in Pima County than ever before. Republicans make up almost 42 percent of the two-party total. "The rule in Arizona has been that when By TOM BEAL Daily Star we get more than 35 percent, the election is attainable," said McLoughlin. He said the current totals make him optimistic about winning some countywide races and the congressional election between incumbent Rep.

Morris K. Udall and Republican candidate Richard Huff. McLoughlin's Democratic counterpart, Lars Pedersen, said the figures tell him "we have to work harder. I think we still have a lot of registration work to do." Pedersen called the growing ranks of the unaffiliated an unknown quantity that will complicate guessing races. McLoughlin said he expects the unaffiliated voters to mirror the voting patterns of the party members "Independents will tend to vote in an election similar to the way the election is going to turn out anyway," he said.

McLoughlin said he isn't surprised by the increase in independents. "It goes along with what the political scientists are telling us they are disenchanted with the system so they don't register, and when they do, they're not picking a party," he said. Bedard predicted that the intensive voter registration drives by his office and the two parties will produce a large number of independent voters. "The people who were originally reluctant to register are also reluctant to be Democrats or Republicans," he said. Absentee ballots for the Sept.

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Mary E. Ellwood dies; teacher and principal here 21 years Mary E. Ellwood, principal at Keen Elementary School, died yesterday at University Hosptial after a stroke. She was 65. Ellwood was a teacher and principal in the Tucson Unified School District for 21 years.

She also taught in American schools in three foreign countries. A native of Cameron, Ellwood came to Tucson in 1950 and taught elemenschool for five years. She earned a master's degree in education from the University of Arizona in 1955. From 1955 to 1964, Elwood traveled with her husband, Charles, a U.S. State Department agronomist.

She taught in American- run schools while the family was stationed in Guatemala, Panama and Vietnam. The Ellwoods returned to Tucson in 1964, and she taught for eight years before beKiller paroled here 2 sue Arizona PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) The parents of a 3-year-old girl slain in 1976 are suing the state of Arizona for $11 million for paroling the child's convicted killer the year before she was killed. Jimmy Lee Gray has been sentenced to die in Mississippi's gas chamber for the slaying of Deressa Jean Scales of Pascagoula, but U.S. District Judge Walter Nixon issued an indefinite stay of execution Tuesday.

Gray had sought the stay Tuesday in federal court after the Mississippi Supreme Court refused to review his conviction and death sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court has once refused to hear Gray's appeal. Gray was paroled from his 20-year-tolife sentence in Arizona Jan. 25, 1975.

He had been serving time on a charge of killing his girlfriend in 1968. The victim was Elda Louise Prince, 16, whose body was found under a railroad culvert southeast of Parker. Records in Yuma County Superior Court show Gray was allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life. Gray was still on parole when the child was sexually molested, suffocated and thrown over a bridge in Jackson County, Miss. Crime fair seeks to Tucson's above-average crime rate and Arizona's growing reputation as "a seat of organized crime and mob activity" are the driving forces behind next month's Crime Prevention and Awareness Fair, the fair's director said yesterday.

One goal of the fair is to get the public to support efforts to reverse the negative image the city and the state have developed, director Frank Ehmann said. Ehmann said Tucson has one of the highest crime rates in the nation, "and that includes cities like Detroit, New York and Chicago." The city's crime rate is 58 percent higher than the national average, he said. The fair, designed to let citizens know what law cement agencies are doing, will provide "the knowledge and awareness necessary to conduct a grass-roots anticrime campaign," he said. Almost 20 law-enforcement agencies and about 40 private companies dealing in coming principal at Tolson Elementary School. In 1974, she transferred to Keen Elementary.

Laura Almquist, president of the Tucson Unified School District Board of Education, opened yesterday's board meeting with an announcement of Elwood's death and praised her work for the district. Ellwood was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society and the Delta Kappa Gamma sorority. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a son, Don, of New York City, and a sister, Dorothy Holland, of Archbold, SPECIALLY DEVELOP Ohio. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. today at Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E.

Speedway. Burial will be in Archbold. in girl's slaying Gray and the Scales family lived in the same Pascagoula apartment complex when the girl was slain. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Richard L. Scales Jr.

and Deborah N. Scales, now Texas residents, contend that psychological testing of Gray while he was at the Arizona penitentiary showed he had "marked disturbances" and "extreme caution should be exercised" before release was approved. The suit claims the Arizona parole board "had every reason to know the release of Jimmy Lee Gray would release to society, particularly young girls, a highly dangerous character." The lawsuit also claims that Arizona provided Gray with "inadequate and incompetent treatment" for his mental problems. In Phoenix, Attorney General Bob Corbin said he had received no notice of the suit. "This is the first I've heard about it," he said after a reporter notified him of the suit.

"There's a possibility that the statute of limitations may have expired." lift city's image products oriented to law enforcement will take part in the fair. It will be Sept. 12-14 in the Tucson Community Center. Activities will include demonstrations of police equipment and techniques, such as the SWAT team, helicopters and canine, search-and-rescue and motorcycle units. The Actor's Repertory Theater will act out many of the con games being operated in the city to alert people to how those activities work.

The public also can attend debates, panel discussions and conferences on specific crime problems. Scheduled to take part are actor Steve Allen, author of a recent book on organized crime; Jerry Uhrhammer, president of Investigative Reporters and Editors which investigated criminal activity in the state after the murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles; Sen. Dennis DeConcini, and convicts from the Arizona State Prison. LB..