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Tucson, Saturday, August 18, 1990 fllif Arizona Daila Star Page Six Section U-Haul detectives take look into killing of ex-CEO's wife St. David Continued from Page IB ..1 ii i i vusur mr District me largest 01 me ft Jc includes St. David. He doubts the petition will succeed. "This is going to be real close, but I don't think it will go," he said.

"Basically St. David has a hard time de- tAra Itcolf nrhih tvav It aronto if go. 4 HsUTf 17j I I' St David would have to take over lice and street repair services, he said "basically, your municipal government." i- a y-p "Means of support" Bennett said this would not be re-" alistic without raising taxes. "They're going to have to have some means of support," he said. Pi i rr; i i.ii.l PHOENIX (AP) U-Haul International, the $1.6 billion rental company whose value has turned a group of 12 siblings into two warring camps, has hired private detectives to investigate the Aug.

6 shooting death of the wife of a family member. "AH the necessary resources of this corporation are being used to help solve this crime People who kill Shoens are going to be apprehended, and that goes for the person who killed Eva Shoen," U-Haul President Mark V. Shoen said Thursday in a prepared statement. Meanwhile, the chief family "outsider," company founder Leonard S. Shoen, 74, of Las Vegas, added another $50,000 to the reward offered to help solve the slaying of Eva Berg Shoen, 44, wife of former U-Haul chief executive Samuel Shoen.

Samuel Shoen had posted a $250,000 reward not long after his three children found the body of his wife in their home about five miles outside Telluride, Colo. Founder forced out Investigators said she had been shot, with no evidence of sexual assault, burglary or other crime at the scene. Samuel Shoen, who quit as CEO in February 1987 after a dispute with his brother, Edward J. "Joe" Shoen, the board chairman of U-Haul parent Amerco moved his family to Telluride about a year ago. The family infighting went public in November 1986, when the majority of Leonard Shoen's 12 children pooled resources to force the U-Haul founder out of control of Amerco.

Edward J. Shoen quit three months later as claims, counterclaims and law suits multiplied. In December 1988, Judge Norman Hall of Maricopa County Superior Court urged the battling Shoens to stop airing their disagreements and spare Amerco "this sort of bloodletting." With that background, news of Eva Shoen's death was followed by allegations that she was the victim of a contract killing. Samuel Shoen asked that his siblings who control the company not attend the funeral. "Loose talk" Mark Shoen said he and other so-called "insiders" honored the request but kept Samuel Shoen and his family in their thoughts.

He also said he was anxious to put murder allegations to rest. "The loose talk seeking to implicate the Shoens who are running the company to the slaying severely damages the public trust and is detrimental to employees, company operations, customers and shareholders," he said. "Yet, it is the kind of thing we have come to expect from our litigious siblings," Shoen added. "The issue of the so-called 'family feud' will be resolved in the courtroom," Shoen added. "Eva's death is unrelated to the U-Haul business and will have no effect on the outcome of the litigation." 4 -s: aid! Bruce McClelland, The Arizona Daily Star Linda Richey, left, Robin Richey, Stephen King and Cynthia King favor incorporation ksix ti uuu vvuvi iivu ers said many services could be con-' tracted out, which might stay any 1 tax increases.

He added that taxes have gone up every year anyway. If St. David became incorporated, residents would have more of a voice in their tax bill, he said. 2 "There Is a price for freedom." "We're looking into all the aspects of incorporation, pro and con," Cynthia King said. Because this is the first time St.

David residents have sought to become incorporated, Cochise County officials are checking maps to measure the buffer zone. Once that is done, the county recorder can go ahead and check the names on the petitions, said Sherry Marcell, electionsspecial districts manager for the county. Once the criteria are met, the county board of supervisors must hold an election within 120 days of the petitions being handed in, by Dec. 13. "Residents will decide" Cynthia King filed petitions with 161 signatures Wednesday at the Cochise County Election Office.

About 110 of the signatures 10 percent of the registered voters in the area seeking to be incorporated will have to be validated for the issue to come up for a vote. "The residents will decide, that's the key," said Stephen King. Sierra Vista and Huachuca City were the last cities incorporated in Cochise County, back in 1958, Mar-cell said. Ponds, green fields and acres of trees in this agricultural community of 1,623 residents provide an oasis about 50 miles southeast of Tucson. The town increasingly has become a bedroom community of Tucson, people earning their paychecks in the city while relishing the quiet and close-knit rural existence for them- selves and their children.

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