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Burch Returns-Minus Fanfare The bespectacled, middle-aged man in the brown overcoat stepped off the commercial airliner yesterday around noon at Tucson International Airport, carrying a briefcase with a White House tag. He was unnoticed by his fellow passengers and people waiting to greet other travelers. President Richard M. Nixon was an attempt to tame criticism of himself by the conservative wing of the GOP, while others wondered about the reaction of liberal Republicans to Ford's decision to keep him on to handle political affairs. Burch said last night that Ford "is a joy to work for and I really mean this because, where the country's interest is involved, his only criterion is the nation and his only political strategy is to do what's right." Assuming Ford decides to run again, Burch said, he "believes and hopes the American voter is ready to respond to that brand of leadership." As to the future of the GOP, Burch said the party is "in danger of a wipeout" in many states but not in Arizona.

"In only four or five states will we control both houses of the legislature." He said he finds it "virtually impossible" to believe that "The same people who favor frugality in government, work rather than welfare and non-intervention by public authority in the lives of ordinary citizens also identify with the Democratic Party. Yet they do." Burch said he feels Republicans are seen by most Americans as being guilty of failing to keep the nation economically sound. Yet he said he thinks voters still see the GOP as being representative of "big business and special interests." Burch declined to comment on the waning days of the Nixon administration and said he did not know if he would comment in the future. "That's really (General Alexander) Haig's story," he remarked. The man who resigned dent Ford to Pierson, Ball was Tucsonan Dean Burch, 46, Monday as a counselor to Presi-join the Washington law firm of and Dowd, specialists in commu- nicatiohs law Burch, whose resignatin is ef- fective at the end of the year, is one of the last of the Nixon holdovers in the White House inner circle.

As he stepped off the plane he1 alio wed a reporter to interview him briefly before hurrying off to a golf match, warning repeatedly that "trying to make a great deal out of my leaving (the White House) would be a mistake." He was here to address last night's Republican Trunk 'n' Tusk fund-raising dinner at the Tucson Community Center, an event attended by more than 350 persons, mostly local Republicans. Unlike many speakers at such in-house political gatherings, Burch framed the future of the GOP with "restrained optimism," painting anything but a rosy picture for his party. Burch called on party leaders to regain a lost ability to communicate" with the American people. "It's up to us to make voters want to vote Republican, in their own perceived interest," he added. Some political observers had thought Burch's appointment last March 7 by former I 1 Mi MaA -t 4.

i i 1,1 jkftsmm. VOL. 133 NO. 338 TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Health Board To Seek Inspection-Fee Repeal year. Some money as anticipated in this year's fiscal budget to be brought in by fee collection.

A total of about 4,000 facilities would pay fees and submit to annual permit review under the ordinance. But according to yesterday's health board request to the supervisors, the ordinance would be retained as far as inspection and an allowance for appeal by facilities where inspectors revoke permits. Colorful, Mysterious Giant Monday night, the space probe came of Jupiter, took a first look at its north and headed on to Saturn yesterday to complete its The colorful, cloudy cover of Jupiter, studded with the famous Red Spot, stands out against the blackness of space as picture-snapping Pioneer 11 moves in on our solar system's giant. This photo was taken Saturday at a distance of 1.9 mil Magma Copper Output At San Manuel Cut 12 Pioneer Survives 'Blowtorch, Heads To Saturn Rendezvous Dean Burch 4, 1974 PAGE ONE SECTION Yesterday, the board also voted unanimously to offer the position of director of the county health department to Dr. James G.

Roney, of Los Altos, who owns and operates a health consulting business called Applied Health Research. Roney, 55, who attended the meeting, refused to say whether he will accept the offer and a starting salary of 134,092. He said he would reply within two weeks. Burt said the 12 per cent decrease would equal 5,500 tons over the next three months. San Manuel produced 140,000 tons of copper in 1973.

Magma, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining, last August announced a $22 million construction project that would boost production by 16,000 tons a year and create 350 new jobs by 1976. If the decrease in copper demand contin- ues, Burt said, the project could be delayed. Phelps Dodge Corp. recently said it was cutting its mining rate by 8.5 per cent by reducing the work week from 6 to 5 days. M.P.

Scanlon, a spokesman for Phelps.Dodge, said the company has a backlog of ore and is reducing the mining rate until the smelters can catch up. l- So I can't say if Sir Zarkon is safe and Lloyd's of London is off the hook for $2,000 or whether he is still roaming the foothills or even whether he actually exists. Sir Zarkon would be easy to spot a gorgeous Siamese with blue eyes that are crossed and that flawless head. I don't imagine champion cats do much except loll around and scratch furniture, but you can never tell. An English Siamese, although not of show quality, picks up a neat $7 a day tasting cat food.

Dumb-Dumb is renowned in Wichita, for the way she defends her master's property no dog could do better. Once Dumb-Dumb spotted an intruder in the garage. She leaped upon his head, triumphantly rode him to the property line, and sent him scampering on his way. And Mrs. Jones of Toledo, Ohio, had a cat that doesn't meow, but sings like a bird.

The Associated Press, and they don't fool about such matters, reported that Casey Jones began trilling and warbling 10 years ago. Mrs. Jones, his owner, was sure there was a hird hincp in fhp hnnco hut tha fmmt it Casey singing. He's kept it up ever since. He's a soprano.

Mrs. Jones says, "When he's hungry, he really cuts loose." Sir Zarkon, if he exists, would probably turn up his aristocratic nose at such behavior. letflt Star Production at the Magma Copper San Manuel mine has been reduced by about 12 per cent in response to declining customer demands Wayne H. Burt, president of Magma, announced yesterday. Burt said that layoffs among the 4,800 employes are not planned now.

However, some employes are being moved from production jobs to work in development of the mine for ore removal. The reduction will continue until Magma's major copper users the automotive, construction and electronics industries increase their activities. Magma's San Manuel division, northeast of Tucson, produces refined copper for industrial markets and continuous-cast rods for the wire and cable industry. i MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) Pioneer 11 slowed yesterday and cruised on a five-year voyage toward its first rendezvous with Saturn, leaving scientists to celebrate and ponder, its dash through Jupiter'ssearing radiation.

The space traveler, all its systems operating normally, telescoped to scientists the receding picture of Jupiter's dark and unknown north pole as it hurtled through space at 35,000 miles an hour on a two-billion-mile trek to Saturn. Only hours earlier, Jupiter spewed deadly electrons and protons at the spacecraft and pelted it with tiny meteoroids as it flashed to within 26,600 miles of the planet. The 570-pound spacecraft then raced up to Jupiter's face at 107,000 miles an hour, climaxing a 620 million-mile, 21-month "If you do it fast enough, you can put your finger through a blowtorch," said Dr. John Wolfe, at NASA's Ames Research Center here. "That's what Pioneer 11 did.

It went through a blowtorch. "If the power holds up, I have no doubt that By KATHLEEN MacDONALD Star Medical Writer The county Board of Health decided yesterday to ask the county Board of Supervisors to repeal a five-month-old health inspection fee schedule on which county officials had worked for nearly two years. Howard Baldwin, a civil deputy county attorney who works with health department matters, called the July passage of the ordinance and now the recommendation for quashing the fee schedule "a sham, an administrative boondoggle." Baldwin said it cost the county about $5,000 to implement the fee system for 29 categories of facilities, from restaurants to day-care centers, and it will cost another $5,000 to return the $37,000 collected so far. "I can't believe that two public bodies could act like this," Baldwin said. "They've been fiddling around like a bunch of grammar-school kids." By a vote of 4 to 2, the health board voted to ask the supervisors to rescind the fee schedule after board member Scott Alexander expressed his concern that the fees are unfair to businesses that receive no services from the county.

The fees are levied as part of an inspection-permit process required by the county for the health and safety of consumers. Therefore, Alexander reasoned, the public should pay for the inspections out of the county's general fund. Alexander also believes that there will be lawsuits as a result of the ordinance and that the county would lose. Baldwin, however, replied after the meeting to Alexander's statements, saying, "I have stated the ordinance is defensible in court. Our office long ago gave the go-ahead as far as legality goes.

Alexander's contentions are without merit." Baldwin said five Arizona counties have such fee schedules as well as numerous localities throughout the country, "and they have not been struck down in court." The board members expressed concern after voting against the fee schedule as to how much money the county health department would lose if the fee money is returned thisi Palmer? His brother Richard, 23, said Jeffrey was arrested after a tavern fight about two months ago during which a man slashed Jeffrey with a broken beer bottle. "When he got aggravated, he would get loud," his father said. "His blue eyes burned with fire when he was angry." Jeffrey had a slim profile. He wore a bushy mustache, glasses and collar-length curly hair. A year ago he lost 50 per cent of his vision in one eye after a thorn bush hit him in the eye.

In his off-work hours he would visit friends, tinker with his truck. On weekends he often would go fishing or hiking, sometimes accompanied by his three dogs and friends. Palmer had recently installed new brake shoes and carpeting in his 1959 Chevrolet pick up truck and planned to have it painted soon. "He was really proud of that truck," Slay said. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m.

today at Bring's Funeral Home Broadway Chapel. Burial will be at Tucson Memorial Park, East Lawn. we will be alive and working at Saturn in September 1979," said Wolfe. Wolfe said Pioneer 11 received less total radiation than its predecessor, Pioneer 10, but Pioneer 11 received a heavier bombardment in a shorter period of time when it plunged three times deeper into Jupiter's radiation belt. "We got over a hurdle," Wolfe declared.

"The important thing is that Pioneer 11 showed that we have the present technology to build orbiters that can survive in that kind of radiation." -( Dr. Donald H. Humes, a NASA scientist, disclosed the spacecraft was hit by tiny meteoroids five times. He said his instruments showed that the- meteoroids were not in orbit as had been believed. Dr.

Guido Munch reported that his infrared telescope showed the temperature at the poles to be slightly cooler than the middle regions of Jupiter. He said the temperature at the poles decreases with an increase in altitude. The risky plunge into the radiation belt failed to confirm a theory about the source of A police officer who witnessed the incident said the two men got out of their vehicles and began pushing at each "other. Seamans then shot Palmer in the throat with a revolver he said he carried for target practice. i Seamans was released without charge after three hours of questioning by police.

Sgt Larry Bunting, head of the homicide detail, said Monday that detectives are continuing their investigation. A coroner's inquest will be held next Tuesday. Palmer was a Tucson Gas Electric Co. apprentice lineman who had been with the company for 2 years. He attended night school three days a week as part of the apprenticeship.

Palmer worked on tHe "trouble crew'-' and was on his way home from work when the chase took place, according to his family. Palmer had been living at 2637 N. Fair Oaks Ave. for about seven months with two men, a carpenter and a cook who also works in con- struction. His roommates, Deo "Dick" Clure and Hal D.

Slay, said Palmer called home an hour lion miles from Jupiter. within 26,000 miles south poles and five-year voyage. Mysterious Auto Chase, Then Death Jupiter's intense radio, signals. Scientists believed the source to be an electrical current of hundreds of thousands of volts running between Jupiter and its nearest moon, Io. Pioneer lLfailed to detect the current.

James C. Fletcher, NASA administrator, said he had rechristened the spacecraft "Pioneer-Saturn," emphasizing the spacecraft's next destination. Scientists at the Ames Research Center put the spacecraft on a course that would use Jupiter's gravitational strength to sling it on the last leg of its three-billion-mile journey from Earth to Saturn. Its cruise to Saturn will take it 100 million miles' out of earth's orbital plane further than any spacecraft ever has been. University of Arizona astronomer Dr.

Tom Gehrels is chief of Pioneer's picture-taking team, which developed the spacecraft's telescope-camera. In addition, scientists at UA's Optical Sciences Center developed a special computer process being used to remove distortions in the photos caused by the motion of the spacecraft. before the incident ocurred at about 1 p.m. "He didn't seem to be bothered about anything and said he'd be home soon," Clure said. The last time his family saw him was on Thanksgiving Day at his parents' home.

Palmer was the third of seven children. His father, Claude E. Palmer, a retired miner, said Jeffrey raised pigeons as a youth. He was always bringing home wounded animals and new pets. "We always thought he'd be a veterinarian," he said.

After graduating from Helix High School in La Mesa, in 1967 when the family returned to Tucson, Jeffrey Palmer spent the next two years doing odd joined the Army in 1969. He was divorced from his wife of two years, Lora Ann, in May. He often visited his stepdaughter Alicia, 4, and daughter Sharlynn, 1. While the Palmer family admitted that Jeffrey displayed spurts of hotheadedness, they said he reacted with violence only when provoked, that he'd rather talk things out. What Happened Inside Jeffrey What I wanted to find out was whether Sir Zarkon could actually do anything except look beautiful.

Sir Zarkon is a Siamese cat reportedly insured for $2,000 by Lloyd's of London because, among other things, he has a flawless haad. Sir Zarkon was also reported missing on Nov. 24 from the Catalina Foothills Estates home he'd been visiting. The Sheriff's Dept. was told of the disappearance by Mrs.

Lou A. Hamara of Santa Rosa, his owner. The Tucson address given was 6945 N. Calle Amorcito. Now it would be rather difficult to get Calle Amorcito mixed up with any other street because it isn't a name you bump into every day, or every week.

However, the lady at this address was getting weary of telephone calls asking about Sir Zarkon. she said quite definitely, "know nothing about the cat. I have never seen it. I have never heard of it. I have never heard of Mrs.

Hamara. I received a telephone call about the cat at midnight last night. I don't like getting midnight calls about a strange cat." I apologized for bothering her, of course, although it was only mid-afternoon. I telephoned the directory assistance operator in Santa Rosa for Mrs. Hamara's number.

The operator said she wasn't listed. They didn't have ANY Hamara listed. The Sheriff's Dept. has received no report. By GAIL YOAKUM Star Staff Writer Jeffrey M.

Palmer rarely minced his words. When he was angered, he'd spit it out and settle the matter, those who knew him say. What provoked him into a wild chase Friday that, ended in his death, police are trying to learn. Palmer's family and friends interviewed during the weekend couldn't given any reasons. Although Palmer was sometimes hotheaded, his family, roommates, former wife, and several neighbors recall him as an easy-going person with a gentleness toward children and animals.

Palmer, 26, was shot to death at the end of the through city streets by the man he was chasing, police said. The man who shot Palmer, Ronald J. Sea-mans, 44, told police that he'd never seen Palmer before the young man, driving a pickup truck, bumped into the rear fender of his car and the chase began. It ended when Palmer drove his truck over a curb and into Seamans' sedan as he was turning a corner. vr;.