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County To Vote On Bonds By JIM HART Two 10-year bond issues total- Ing $035,000 will be presented Pima: county voters for their approval. Mar. 19. I n-Issuing tnelr wit! for a bond election this morning, the supervisors scrapped plans to build county swimming pools on school grounds at a cost of $80,000, but tacked on an additional $15,000 to purchase a new site for the proposed juvenile detention home. Plans to enlarge the courthouse at of $460,000 were left unchanged.

Fred 0. Goodell, county comptroller, estimated the S63000 bond issue, Mf carried, would add another five cents per $100 to the tax rate. TOTAL COST of the juvenile detention home now is estimated at The original resolution calling for $100,000 was amended today at the suggestion of Lambert J. Kniitenburger, chairman of the board, after a delegation from the Menlo Park school district protested the proposed site of'the home. The county had purchased land for the detention home at the corner of Grande avenue and Fresno street, across a park from the Menlo Park school.

The Menlo Park'residents, led by Mrs. John Meserve, presented a petition containing 481 signatures objecting to locating the home in any residential area. AFTER -THIS board explained children not be allbw.ed to run loose in the area, the delegation pointed out some of the juveniles might escape, steal their cars and break into their In ensuing discussion, Supervisor Lamb out for placing the home on land the county owns. Kautenburger pointed out that not to include funds to purchase other land would jeopardize, passage of the. proposal, -since Menlo Park presidents might all vote against it.

Robert Johnson, county juvenile probation officer, stated city officials 'would like to have WURLlIZER MAKKTKO MUSIC I i 8.68 17.37 26.05 It Mo. 7.04 14.07 21.11 teerleai vt (Anl.l YOUR LIFE INSURED AT NO EXTRA COST on loons of $300 or loss Employed men and women married or lingle enjoy prompt tervice here. Your life intured for the unpeid balance on ol $300 or no extra cost to you. Nationwide i credit established. fkitaiial and affiliated I companies are now the largest loan group in the) U.S.

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Bob Bov-rd, YES MANager lew ncifoh til wnueneii.) loom 'Do Pass Given Child Colony Sum By WILEY MALONEY PHOENIX--(IP)--The senate of the 21-st legislature'held ts first debate session today, and the committee of the whole gave a. do-pass recommendation to a bill providing use of extra funds at the Randolph children's colony. The bill, introduced by Sen. William'-F. Kimball 'D-Pima), would permit Use-of unds left over from a $365,000 appropriation made last session for extension present roads and sidewalks and construction of a central kitchen at the colony, The measure was passed on an emergency basis so that the excess funds could be used currently.

Meanwhile, a measure calling home in the city, since their patrolmen could not leave the city to take juveniles'to the home if it were in the KAUTENBURGER. answered: "They take prisoners to their jail farm 111 the county, don't they? I think they cun work it out." Kautenburger also suggested the proposed bond issue of S80.000 for buildmg swimming pools in conjunction with public high schools be dropped "because a legal question over the county's right to spend money, to improve school district property. Since neither Lamb nor. Supervisor Thomas Jay acted on Kauteribu.r g-e himself finally made tlie motion for the revised "bond election on Mar. 19.

Tlie motion seconded by Jay and all three supervisors voted its. passage. GORDON ALURICH, deputy county attorney, said the county probably is prohibited by law from trading the property it owns in Menlo Park for 'a more suitable site for tlie home, The'county probably will have to auction that property If it' decides to'get rid of it, Aldrich said. The, land.cost the county $12,300. his on the- in tax rate to pay off the proposed bond issue by comparison, with a table of pay- ments he had worked out when the bond proposal was pegged at $700,000.

UKDEB THE OLD schedule the cost of interest and principal payments' would have added .056 per $100 to'the tax rate during the first year, dropping to about .045 during the 10th year. By comparison, the rate S635.000 vWould increase about during the first year, dropping to about .045 during the tenth, year. Voters will Be given their chance to approve either or both of. bond issues in county-wide voting. The proposals will appear oa separate ballots.

Deputies Look In Vain For Masked Bandit Sheriff Sy deputies searched, the. southwest Tucson area in vain last night for-a youthful hooded bandit who strolled away with $60 in $10 bills after the Foodtown'Market, Last night's was the 10th armed robbery in the Tucson for an amendment to reorganize the state judicial system, with the objective of-taking it. out. of politics was introduced. The legislation was errtbodied in a house concurrent resolution introduced by Hlrsch (R-Maricopa).

It was among the 15 house measures and five senate bills introduced today. THE AMENDMENT would set up a state judicial council consisting of 12 members, presided over by the chief justice. The membership would include the current president oE the state bar five past presidents, and six lay members who are not members of the bar and who would come from counties not already represented by bar members. The amendment also would provide for increasing the terms of office of superior court judges from four to six years and of supreme court justices from six to 10 years. The judges would he appointed by the governor from a list con- 'taining not less than three names recommended by the council.

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1 HOUR FREE PARKING AT REAR OF STORE xplration of individual terms, he judges their ames placed on the election bal- ot and the electorate, would be sked to determine if they should is retained A simple liajority would be needed for re- lection, -but the judge seeking iffice would be unopposed other- vise. TWO MINORITY- members in- reduced-measure's providing for a state department of flnan.ce ind a state department of personnel. Neither bill carries the governor's endorsement, however. Rep. L.

S. Dick Adams (D-Maricopa) introduced the personnel department bill, while Rep. Fred Dove D-Cochise) has (he department of finance measure. Rep. Neilson Brown (D-Santa Cruz) submitted a bill to transfer the powers of collection and of revenues from the state racing commission to the post auditor.

area--outside 'the city limits-since Christmas eve. It followed by nine, days the unsuccessful holdup of El" Grande market, 706 N. Grande Jan. 10, during 18-year-old, employee was wounded. PRANK GIN, 25-year-old cashier at.

the Foodtown. Market, said hp had just waited on an Indian family and was alone in th.e. store at about 8:30 p.m.. when the rubber--wearing a white cloth hood which revealed only his eyes- strode in and demanded: "Open the cash register!" Gin complied, following the gunman's instructions and handing him only $5 and $10 bills. The thief left the way ne came, head- ng westward on Ajo way at'' a pace.

The cashier's proprietor i was in his residence at the rear of the store during the holdup and did not know of it until the bandit had departed. Frank Gin said the gunman had a "youthful voice" and seemed to be between IS and 20 iv Open Fridays 9 to 9 I 11 South 6th Ave. Phone 2-6435 WESTERN AUTO" SUPPLY CO. cashier said he saw long, steel barrel of only what the appeared to be old model revolver," projecting from the robber's tan fabric jacket. No more words were exchanged, Gin reported, and the years build old.

and He was of slight average height and spoke without a noticeable accent. THE CURRENT SERIES of holdups the morning of Dec. 24 when a cool gunman held up the manager of the Southern Arizona bank's Alvernon-Broad way branch, escaping with 2,900 $1 bills. Other.victims, and the amounts taken, have been: Dec. 26, OzarK cafe, 1641 Sixth $230 (Robert Robin- 23, arrested by South Tucson police' and now: awaiting superior court trial); Dec.

27, New York lounge, 2226 S. Fourth two men took about $300 at gunpoint; 27, Cabbie Lon'Whitte- more dumped 12 miles cast city by gunman who stole his taxi, $9. cash, shoes -and wrist watch, Dec. 27, Al's market, 3025 N. S152 taken by one youth; Dec.

29, Paul's diner, 2517 S. Fourth owner Leach Vain slugged, two -masked men fled with $37; Dec. 31, Biltmore Motor hotel, 2775' N. Oracle pock marked bandit got about $300 from night clerk; Jan. 4, William Ilesman.

service, station, 2001 Oracle two men abducted station operator to detain police aftei taking. $25 from register; Jan. 10 El Grande market, 70B N. Grande two black-hooded men fled without loot after shooting employee-Ernie YbJrra through left arm. Hearing Set In Slaying Michael Timothy Cavanaugh will -have a preliminary hearing Diego Feb.

1 on a charge of murdering Ralph R. Welch, J3, ex-marine from Tucson. Cavanaiigh, 29, convicted forger and escapee from a California mental institution, has admitted tilling Welch, officers added. But, they said, he insists the killing was in Tijuana, Mexico, and not in California. Detective Virgil Seiveno of 'hula Vista, San Diego suburb where the two men were last drinking together 27, 1953, believe we have enough to prove Cavanaugh killed Welch In the United States." Cavanaugh was picked up in Denver when he tried to obtain medical treatment for a man who had been savagely beaten.

When asked to identify, himself, he produced Welch's papers. Police noted the description of Welch didn't six foot, 200-pound Tuctday Evening. January 19, 1354 Cavanaugh who then fled and was shot dowrtr Under -influence of a serum" Cavanaugh testified, he found Welch's body in a car. in Tijuana and drove across Arizona and New Mexico (where he burled the body In a 'shallow grave) to Colorado. Welch was the son of Mr.

aiid Mrs. Ora Welch, 814 st here. He left Tucson for Chula Vista in June of 1053, -where he lived with his wife, Josephine, and their small daughter, Mary Jo, in a 'trailer while he was attending school. Haugh Gets House Ways And Means Post PHOENIX --UPJ-- Speaker John C-. Smith of the house of representatives today placed Rep.

John. H. Haugh (R-Pima) on the house waj's and means committee. The Pima county legislator fills a vacancy created when the committee removed Rep. Harry Rup- pelius (D-Maricopa).

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Air Line Strike Pends A nationwide strike of American Airlines maintenance men, which could affect 14 Tucson workers, is pending, it was announced here today. Trevor Cushman, local AA manager, said negotiations between a federal mediator and representatives of the Transportation Workers Union were continued until 2 this morning in Washington, with no success. As a result of the wage disagreement, slowdowns have been effected in Detroit and New York, Cushman said. The resultant lack of equipment in the east has neant the cancellation of only one daily flight (No. 166), through Tucson, he added.

The Tucson manager observed that AA officials are hopeful the dispute will be settled before any of the local employes are asked to join in a nationwide walkout. A scheduled visit of 56 midwest newsmen Thursday 'and Friday has been postponed, Cushman said, because of -the. threat that a strike might strand them here. Tucspnian's Son Killed LAON. France-- W1 --Col John Powers Crocker of Santa Anna, executive officer of the U.S., air force 128th light bombard-' ment wing, died last night of injuries received in the crash of a D-213 bomber in French Morocco, it was announced here today.

Col. Crocker was piloting the plane it smashed up Jan. 14 in a forced landing on rugged terrain near Mazagam during a training flight over Morocco. First Lt. Gordon G.

Stewart of Peoria, was killed instantly. Stewart was the son of Mrs. Christine Stewart, 520 E. Llmberlost a at radio station KVOA); Two -other crewmen, Capt. Gene Roberts of Prospect Heights, arid StafE Sgt, Theo Cole McColl of Prattsvllle, also were injured but are reported recovering in ail- force hospital at Nouaceur, Moi'occo.

Greenstreet, Actor, Dies HOLLYWOOD MV-- Sydney Greenstreet, rotund, English-born character actoy, died today. He was 74. A mortuary' said he succumbed to natural causes. 1ST MOKTGAGK LOANS Life Ini. money on owner occupied duplexes mercantile 10, 20 years.

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