Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 2

7 wiuv STATE raiSM (EI)c Arizona Bailn Shr Mm PAGE ONE TUCSON, SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1981 4 ri mmrrrtr 1 pi MM jLJllLjaJ J. il ml i Future farmers all in a rOW As their jackets proclaim, these Wilicox teen-agers on a bus are Arizona's Future Farmers of America Campbell Avenue Farm, and had tested their skills in agricultural economics and job interviewing. (Star photo by Dale McKinnon) just a few of the more than 1,000 members convening at the University of Arizona. They had just finished judging cattle, poultry and sheep at the UA's Regents OK $20 million for universities' fire safety By EDWARD LEMPINEN The Arizona Daily Star Voicing an extraordinary sense of urgency, the Arizona Board of Regents gave preliminary approval yesterday to spending more than $20 million in the next three years to bring university buildings into compliance with state fire codes.

Regent William P. Reilly of Phoenix said the proposal answers a "real honest-to-God story on Page 6A. "With a tremendous amount of work," he said, dormitories on the campuses would be "finished by September of this year, before the kids go back in those buildings." Under the plan, scheduled for final adoption today, the universities would spend $8.6 million in the next year to improve safety, and eliminate structural hazards in dormitories. In the two years after that, they would spend another $12 million to bring classroom and office buildings into to generate dormitory-improvement funds and "spread those costs over the years to people who use the buildings." Bonding would require "a modest increase in the housing fees," Schaefer said. Reilly answered that bonding is a "business-as-usual approach." "We're in a different ball game," he said.

"I think the dormitories should be self-supporting. At the same time, I don't think we can wait for the tuition and bonding to get the job done." Schaefer noted also that some of the buildings were made primarily of concrete, and claimed that the fire danger "is not as great" as some have argued. After the meeting, he said the requirement for the UA to spend some $2 million this year would siphon away funds from other building projects. But, said Regent Esther Capin, "The situation warrants some very strong action. In order to get it done and over with, we're going to have to take some extreme steps." safety violations in the dormitories eliminated within a year.

In a speech to the board, Reilly said, there "cannot be 'business as usual' with catering to administrators, architects, engineers and students." Initially, he said, the emphasis should be on putting adequate alarm and warning systems in dormitories that don't already have them. To save time, the universities will seek approval from the Arizona Department of Administration to skip putting the wcrk out for bids. There was no discussion on what other method would be used to pick contractors. Regent Thomas Chandler took the call for urgency a step further, suggesting a moratorium on all other construction until the buildings are safe. His proposal was not acted upon.

UA President John P. Schaefer said he was disturbed by the plan because it requires university funds to be spent'on dormitories, which have been self-supporting in the past. He asked the regents to allow the universities to sell bonds According to a board report, buildings at the University of Arizona need more modification than those at Northern Arizona University or Arizona State University. The outlay at the UA would be $3 million for dormitories and almost $5 million for academic buildings. In November, The Arizona Daily Star reported that UA officials had found hazards in 55 campus buildings.

The problems included inadequate ventilation systems in some chemical laboratories, air-circulation systems that would fill hallways with smoke during a fire, and unenclosed stairways that would serve as chimneys during a fire. The regents plan to seek an emergency state appropriation of $8.4 million for work to be completed in the first year, while the universities are to provide another $3.5 million from "local funds" sources such as student fees and interest from investment funds. The UA would be required to provide almost $2 million of such local funds in the first year alone. The regents made it clear that they want all fire-code and Locals reportedly backing L.A. applicants County asking state to comb gas records Firm seeks Tucson Spanish-language TV station By HOWARD FISCHER The Arizona Dally Star Roland, assistant legal counsel for Golden West Broadcasters, is a former lawyer for the Spanish International Network and for the FCC.

His brother Walter is an account executive at Los Angeles' KMEX-TV, and Ronald is a program assistant with ABC-TV. Roland said they are involved with Channel 40 to provide broadcast expertise. KTVW began transmitting over Channel 40 last fall by way of a translator. But the channel is one of three the FCC has assigned to Tucson for possible use as a full-service station. The others are Channel 18, for which other groups have applied, and Channel 27, which must be a non-commercial station.

The FCC gives priority over translators to any group seeking to operate a full-service station. Groups operating via translators can apply to the FCC for other channels as long as their signals do not interfere with full-service stations. By SHERRY STERN The Arizona Daily Star Three Los Angeles men with financial backing from Tucsonans have applied to the Federal Communications Commission to base a Spanish-language television station in Tucson. It would broadcast over Channel 40 a channel now being used by KTVW, a Spanish-language station in Phoenix. Roland, Walter and Ronald Ulloa each have a 10 percent interest in the firm applying for Channel 40, the Vaite Verde Broadcasting said Roland Ulloa.

The remaining 70 percent is owned by the Monte Verde a group of Mexican-Americans from Tucson. He declined to identify members. The Ulloas, who are also Mexican-American, work in broadcasting in Los Jose Ronstadt of KTVW said it is too early to say what his station will do, but added, "We have to assure people that we're in Tucson to stay." Most of KTVW's programming comes from Spanish International Network, and Roland Ulloa said his group plans for the new channel to be a SIN affiliate. If the Ulloa group gets the license, Channel 40 initially would operate the same number of hours as KTVW now transmits, eventually expanding to 24 hours. The new station could produce programming for Tucson, including a local Spanish news program.

The group's offices are at 1635 E. 18th St. The station eventually would employ at least 20 people here and train Hispanics in the broadcasting business, the Ulloas said. The deadline for applying for Channel 40 is April 13. Ulloa said FCC action could take six months to five years.

additional revenue during the past five years would have been $437,500. Huckelberry said the July 1980 report shows 822,314 gallons of gas sold in Pinal County by Pasco, yet none here. "In reviewing previous reports it is apparent that there is an error in this allocation," he said. He said the reports also show no income from Pasco during October, November and December. Huckelberry also noted that the December report omits figures for Chevron USA which would include an estimated 22 million gallons.

He said he believes this is due to a delay in obtaining reports from distributors. And although it may be included in a future report, there is no guarantee that Pima County will get its fair share. He said the accounting of fuel consumption between counties does not reflect actual use. He wants the Arizona Department of Transportation to make changes in the reporting system to prevent future problems. Huckelberry is also asking for a review and adjustment of Pasco sales in Pima County.

Pima County Transportation Director Chuck Huckelberry wants the state to find out if the county has been cheated out of more than $400,000 in tax revenues. Huckelberry said a check of highway-user funds, which are based on gasoline sales, shows the number of cars registered here grew much faster than the tax income. The transportation director also pointed out that reports by one gasoline cpmpany showed no income during four months last year in the county. He said he doubts that Pasco Petroleum which has retail stations here, did no business during those months. Huckelberry said that during the past five years Pima County's population grew 20.6 percent and its vehicle registrations grew 17 percent.

Yet gasoline consumption went up only 1.4 percent. By contrast, he said, Maricopa County had a 22 percent population growth, 22.6 percent more cars and a 14 percent increase in gasoline use. He said if Pima County's actual gas use increased 11.4 percent or 10 percent more than the state report indicated the Talks on Marana flight base feared stalled Titan crewman examined after toxic-gas incident possible alternatives to Marana Air Park. Smith said one site is near Marana, and the other is in the vacinity of Ryan Field, a private airstrip in the Avra Valley southwest of Tucson. He added, however, that the Air Guard still thinks Marana would be the best solution.

The Air Guard is responsible for the construction phase of any move to Marana or an alternative site, but can't get to work unt. Thompson, a Tucson resident who has been lobbying for eight years to reduce the overflights from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, denounced what she calls "foot dragging" in the Marana negotiations and said she is convinced that the Marana proposal is dead. D-M, which is not directly involved in the negotiations, refused to comment on the possibility of increased military air traffic over Tucson if the shift to Marana falls through. Smith said that about 29,000 Air Force and Air Guard flights were diverted to Marana for practice during the last fiscal year. Patrick O'Sullivan of the Tucson office of the Federal Aviation Administration said failure of the Marana proposal would have "significant" ramifications for Tucson.

"It will have a serious impact, because all the training now being conducted in that area is going to be shuffled back into this area," he said. O'Sullivan's assessment was confirmed by Col. Wess Chambers of the Air National Guard, which is based at Tucson International Airport. Chambers said the Air Guard has shifted about 50 percent of its operations from Tucson International to the Marana area, but those flights might have to be made in the Tucson area again if the negotiations fail. "There's evidently a disagreement between the Air Force and Pinal County over the terms of the lease," Chambers said.

"I'm just hopeful that they'll both realize the total impact of what the benefits could be to the state, Pinal County, Tucson and the Air Force and that they'll quit bickering over it and get down to the issues," Chambers said. answer by Jan. 31. It was Feb. 1 when Pinal forwarded a counterproposal to Pentagon bargainers, he said.

Rittenhaus said the Air Force is reviewing Pinal's counterproposal, as well as studying its other options, and expects to make a decision within six weeks. Details of the negotiations have been kept secret. Pinal negotiators could not be reached for comment yesterday. Stiff demands by the county and the air park, however, could give the Air Force cause to reconsider the cost of converting a portion of the air park for military use. Test borings conducted on the Marana runways by an Air Force survey crew revealed structural problems, and the Pentagon says a new runway would have to be built at a cost of $18 million.

The total cost of the Marana modifications is estimated at $30 million. Rittenhaus said yesterday that the negotiations, although at a critical stage, are still in progress. Adjutant Gen. John G. Smith Jr.

of the Arizona National Guard will examine two new sites in the Tucson area Monday as By JON AINSWORTH The Arizona Daily Star Negotiations between the Air Force and Pinal County for the use of Marana Air Park as a training base may be at an impasse. A failure of the negotiations could result in an increase in military-training flights over Tucson and dash hopes that more military flights could be cleared from Tucson's airways in the future. The proposed shift of training flights to Marana has been bandied about since the 1978 crash of an A7-D Corsair killed two University of Arizona students and focused public attention on the number of military flights over heavily populated areas. Jack Rittenhaus, deputy for installations management for the secretary of the Air Force, said from Washington yesterday that no agreement has been reached with Pinal County or Evergreen Air Center the manager and largest tenant of Marana Air Park. The Air Force apparently thought it had reached a tentative agreement with Pinal County officials during 1980 negotiations, and in October forwarded a written proposal to the county, saying it would need an A Titan missile crew member was examined at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Hospital and released yesterday after he was thought to have come in contact with a toxic gas used to detect vapor leaks at the silo.

Air Force officials said base doctors determined that Sr. Airman Jerry Shurr, 21, of Reading, had suffered "no overexposure." The incident was reported to have taken place about 1 p.m. in a missile installation 50 miles north of Tucson. Tech. Sgt.

Phillip Haines said that while two crewmen were shutting down the silo's vapor-detection system after an interruption of commercial power to the missile site, Shurr may have come in contact with the reagent dimethylamine. Haines said the silo's emergency power system took over during the 3-hour electricity interruption. The public was not in danger, he said. The silo is between Florence and Oracle Junction, in Pinal County. The Air Force along with Trico Electrical Cooperative, the local power source is investigating the incident.

Introduced defendant to slain undercover agent Pair get 7 years' probation, agree to testify against Celaya in murder trial The fugitive was accompanied by Castillo and Childs, Dover has said, who unwittingly approached one of Walker's informants looking for a buyer. Another facet of the complicated case began years earlier, Dover has said, when Castillo and Childs ripped off a Mexican drug dealer, telling the dealer that Celaya had sent them. The dealer never forgave Celaya and was threatening his life. Celaya, however, had not sent Childs and Castillo, the attorney claimed. But Celaya had met the Mexican dealer during a 7-year stint as an informer for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

When the dealer began threatening his life, Celaya went to the DEA for help, Dover has said. When the agency did not act, Celaya decided he would use his fabricated drug story to steal At their own request, Childs and Castillo were sentenced after the agreement was accepted. Deputy County Attorney Richard Rollman said the two probably will testify Monday. "I would just like to thank the court for this plea agreement," Castillo told Roylston. "I've learned a lot since I've been in jail." Castillo and Childs introduced Celaya to Walker the day he was killed, thinking that Celaya had cocaine, and that Walker was a buyer.

Celaya's attorney, Albert Dover, contends Celaya fabricated a story about having large quantities of cocaine because he was trying to help apprehend a federal fugitive. Dover has said that Celaya ran into the fugitive in a bar, and made the story up to enjice him to stay in Southern Arizona and transport the drug for a fee. money from Walker so he could bribe Mexican authorities to throw the dealer in jail, Dover said. Rollman, however, contends that revenge on Childs and Castillo was one of Celaya's motives for shooting Walker in cold blood. Dover says Celaya was not interested in revenge, but shot Walker in self-defense after Walker pulled a gun.

Celaya met Childs, Castillo and Walker in the El Con Shopping Center parking lot on Nov. 30. Walker suggested moving the deal to the Tucson International Airport, and Celaya agreed. Castillo and Childs did not accompany the two to the airport. They were arrested after the shooting, and have been in jail since.

By D. WEYERMANN The Arizona Daily Star Two men who introduced Genaro Celaya to undercover agent John Walker pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to sell a narcotic drug, and will be released on probation after they testify against Celaya. Celaya is on trial in the November 1979 murder of Department of Public Safety agent Walker. Paul Childs and Filiberto Castillo were originally charged with first-degree murder along with Celaya. The conditions of their final plea agreement, which was accepted yesterday by Superior Court Judge Richard N.

Royl-ston, stipulate that they will be released from the Pima County Jail after they testify against Celaya, and that they will be on probation for seven years..