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Men Fight Winter to Save Indians Holiday Season Forgotten Due to Desperate Plight Around Tuba City Republic Photo by Earl MeCirtnty THAT'S PEACOCK, NOT from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Scottsdale yesterday brought -Rural Fire Department's Bill Canes, left, Capt. Bob Oden, center, rind Paul Bible to the rescue. Crew discovered a peacock in tree, one of 18 owned by James B. Phillips, 6734 Jackrabbit Road. Six are still missing.

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Saturday, December 23, 1967 Page 17 What's Happening ASU Profs 'Grabber 9 Is Big Dose of Wayout Pop Culture By PAUL SCHATT A dose of pop philosophy may be just the thing to transform American architecture from its pacifying reliance on Manhattan skyscrapers and pseudo- Graeco-Roman post offices that resemble tiny acropolises into a vigorous reflection of the country's spirit. The idea is that of Dr. Calvin Straub, Arizona State University professor of architecture. While it is not likely to make him many friends among fans of Greek architecture or the Roman Forum, it may help architecture students understand modern America. McLuhan is actually the Inspiring force of Dr.

Straub's program, if only unwittingly. McLuhan, a Canadian-born communications guru now at Fordham University, believes one gains more knowledge of a country by plunging into its television, radio, movies, newspapers and records than by reading its books. It WAS A short step from that to Dr. Straub's architecture classroom, where $5,000 worth of sound equipment, two movie projectors, four slide projectors, and two television sets play simultaneously as students boggle at the wonders of hot and cold running media, or perhaps only at the noise. "It's a pretty wild thing," Dr.

Straub admitted. "It offers the full spectrum all across the board, what's happening in our time." Well, one might ask, what IS happening? For one of Dr. Straub's classes recently, the answer was communicated in contemporary terms. What that means is that one of the movie projectors played an old Charlie Chaplin movie while the other played television commercials; the two television sets showed a baseball game with no sound and a picture that would flip every half-second so no one could watch the action; the slide projectors simultaneously showed paintings, billboards illustrating hippies, nudes, modern buildings, scenes from Expo '67, campus scenes and a photo of a McDonald's hamburger stand. WHILE ALL this was assaulting the sensibilities of the students, the sound equipment blared out with the Jefferson Airplane, Stravinsky, Mustang Sally and Sen.

Dirksen's "Gallant Men." In addition, special effects presented sounds of a jet airplane shooting through the room followed by fire engines. David Oxman, a sound engineer, produced the audio program. Audio Recorders donated facilities. This tableau was followed by Frank Sprague reading Vietnam newspaper stories, T.S. Eliot's poems, Winnie the Pooh, Ezra Pound and Lil' Abner.

"It shakes the kids out of their complacency," Dr. Straub noted. "Part of the experimental mainstream was to stimulate and jar. I think the class was really turned on." LEST SOME troubled parent assume that ASU's architecture program consists solely of Sen. Dirksen's dramatic monologues and pictures of hamburger stands, it should be explained that the media collage is used as an introductory lecture to the period under study; it is followed up by more traditional lectures on architecture.

By PAUL DEAN Republic Staff Writer TUBA There is little sleep in northern Arizona today, just uncomfortable cot naps in police stations or in warm corners of old buildings. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are baloney sandwiches, cheese sandwiches and cheese and baloney sandwiches. Timetables are empty of a.m. and p.m. Work starts before dawn and hasn't ended after dusk.

This bone-cramping pace will continue through Christmas and maybe into 1968 for a red-eyed army of 2,000, men and machines biting back against winter to reach an estimated 40,000 Indians still marooned on the Navajo Reservation. SIX PERSONS have already frozen to death. No one dares hint at a toll for cattle and sheep. But the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Civil Air Patrol, reservation police and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have been slugging for 10 days to keep grim mathematics to a minimum. Hopefully they have succeeded at Window Rock where rescue helicopters and cargo planes have been air-dropping tons of food and fuel to snow-buried hogans.

Yesterday, Navajo Tribal Chairman Raymond Nakai took a light plane tour of the eastern sector of his reservation. He saw few signal mirrors and even fewer distress signals stamped in the snow. "THEY LOOKED comfortable," said Nakai. "I think we've got this section under control." Now the rescue strain has been placed on Tuba City, 70 miles north of Flagstaff. This is the rugged in-country nut of the problem now.

Ten days ago, Tuba City was exorcized from civilization. Banked snow and 2 inches of ice on its short, bootlace runway prohibited the big planes from landing. A few helicopters have fluttered by but were unable to touch down because there is no kerosene fuel here. Roads from Page and Flagstaff were choked until yesterday. RESCUE HAS come only to those Indians living less than 5 miles from these highways.

Nothing has been done for an estimated 15,000 Navajos in the trackless back country: 38 families struggling to survive at the levels of the Bodaway area, hundreds more dotted around Inscription House, where two sheepherders have already died, Paiute Canyon, Cedar Ridge, Lower Basin and Navajo Mountain. For 10 days Tuba City, "the friendly branch of the roads," has tragically been anything but friendly to its Indian dependents. But yesterday, relief was born. AN Am FORCE tanker truck carrying 5,000 gallons of precious jet fuel butted through U.S. 264 from Window Rock.

It took Sgt. Dennis Ives five days of waiting and 10 hours of travel to make the 160-mile haul. In bitter-crisp temperatures of 10 below zero, a nine-man combat patrol team from Travis AFB, hit the silk and parachuted onto the Tuba City airfield. They were followed by chutes dangling 26 50-gallon barrels of fuel. The townsfolk said a prayer.

Tuba City schoolchildren, free from classes since Dec. 13, fan to collect autographs from the Air Force commandos. AND AT NOON, the helicopters arrived: whistling Army Hueys, twin- rotored Air Force Huskies and deep- olive Sea Kings from the Navy's Reams Field, near San Diego. "Boy, were we glad to see those helicopters," said Jimmy-on-the-spot, James P. Howell, BIA superintendent at Tuba City.

"If we hadn't seen pictures of helicopters, we wouldn't even have known what they look like." Ahead of Howell, his fleet of two-man snow sleds, bulldozers and blades and now his helicopters is 6 million acres of canyons and mesas to scan, from the Little Colorado in the south, north to Utah's San Juan River. Drifts in the area are estimated up to 10 feet. Mission pilots are already reporting twinkling mirrors, waved red blankets and sick Indians "at every gan we visit." PNEUMONIA is a major fear. Tuba City's Public Health Service Hospital is already jammed: 79 patients and only 75 beds to treat them. Plans are being made to convert dormitories at the Tuba City boarding school into an emergency dispensary.

A package of cigarettes is a gold nugget in Tuba City. The town has been without meat for a week. After 10 days of valiant ground work, the stamina of rescuers is wearing paper-thin. Howell estimates that most of the ensnared hogans had food and fuel for only three days. They have been cut off for 10 days.

"But we're not going to stop until we can see tracks leading to every one of the 4,000 hogans out there," he said. WHEEEEEEEEEEEE! inches of snow meant sore muscles and applications of liniment for most adults in Flagstaff the past two days, but to these east Flagstaff youngsters it meant breaking out the sleds in the wake of the snowplows. Hospital Of ficials Slander Unions, Aycock Charges Arizona State Hospital officials yesterday were accused of slandering the labor union movement. The accusation was made by Darwin Aycock, state AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer. Aycock took sharp issue with statements made Thursday by the hospital's business administrator, Paul Binney, and Supt.

Dr. Willis Bower. IN A REPORT to the hospital board, they attributed the low incidence of cruelty to patients by employes to the fact that the employes are not represented by a labor union. Unions, they maintained, inhibit hospitals from firing incompetent workers. "The fact that state hospital employes are nonunion," Aycock asserted, "has nothing whatever to do with the incidence of patient abuse.

"The slanderous statements made by the hospital officials are as outlandish as they are stupid," Aycock added. "THE BUSINESS administrator," he maintained, "misrepresented employe grievance which are designed to protect all employes from undue administrative abusfe and to offer job protection." Bowers claimed that a union forced a California hospital to rehire several em- ployes who had been dismissed because they abused patients. "The union member," said Aycock, "is as concerned with the quality of health care given at the state hospital as is Dr. Bowers or Mr. Binney.

But we go further. We also are interested in the quality of lives lived by those who work at the hospital. "IF THE EMPLOYES feel the need for a union, that is their concern alone. "The proper time to end patient abuse problems is at the time of hiring. With proper personnel qualifications and an equitable salary, the best qualified people will be hired.

"If problems wise," Aycock concluded, "the correct way to handle the personnel problems is in an open hearing, by labeling unions as the source of all evil." Tax Revision Bills Called Teacher Quality Threat Arizona faces the loss of outstanding classroom teachers as a result of the tax revision bills passed this week by the State Legislature, an education spokesman said yesterday. Dix W. Price of Phoenix, executive secretary of the Arizona Education Association, said he was fearful that a bill placing restrictions on school district spending would reduce funds for teach- Insurance Post Not Yet Filled The Arizona Corporation Commission yesterday tabled appointment of a new state insurance director until 10 a.m. Thursday. George Livermore, commission secretary, has been acting insurance director since the Arizona Supreme Court disqualified G.

A. Bushnell as director for accepting an insurance company loan. LIVERMORE yesterday said he is willing to remain as acting director until the commission makes a permanent appointment to the post. But he took himself out of the running as a candidate for the permanent appointment by the commission. Commission members apparently are not in agreement on other candidates.

In other action yesterday, the commission: Swan Funeral Home, Tucson, to increase its ambulance service base charge from $12.50 to $25. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Co. lawyers and opposing counsel until about Jan. 12 to file briefs on whether the commission should order the railroad to reinstate two Phoenix-Williams Junction passenger trams. to look into complaints from Nogales produce dealers that their trucking rights across the Mexican border are now claimed by a Mexican firm charging $20 a trip.

ers' salaries, causing them to move to other states. "WE (THE AEA) will make careful observations of how the school districts are affected," Price said. "If it is warranted, we will ask for a national AEA study. It goes without saying that the findings of the committee would be made known to the legislature. "In the meantime, we could lose some outstanding teachers.

This is what I'm worried about." Of the bills figuring in the major tax restructure attempt, one that prohibits a school district budget increase of more than 6 per cent without voter consent, is expected to have the most impact on education in the state. PRICE SAID the 6 per cent limitation "could be the beginning of bargain basement education and serious deterioration of teacher morale in Arizona." On the other hand, said Price, the legislation has some good features and is not expected to stimulate any immediate sanctions by the teacher organizations. "The tax shift from local property taxes to state taxes has long been advocated by the AEA," said Price. This was another feature of the legislation. Reaction from the state's major taxpayers was less vociferous than that of education spokesmen.

HOWEVER, A spokesman for the mining industry, T. G. Chilton of Superior, secretary to the President of Magma Copper said: "The mines took a whipping. When one industry is assessed at 40 percent and another at 60 percent, that's not equalization." Chilton had reference to a bill that places the tax assessment of utilities at 40 percent and mines and railroads at 60 per cent. A spokesman for Southern Pacific Railroad said the company's position, as outlined in a statement Dec.

11 by president B. F. Biaggini, has not changed. The statement called the new tax proposals "highly discriminatory." Wide Support Given Proposed Welfare Boost By BILL KING A proposed emergency relief boost got support yesterday from a wide range of organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Welfare Rights Organization of Arizona. The support for the State Welfare Board proposal was voiced in a public hearing at the State Welfare Department, where no opposition was offered to the increase from a top of $80 a month for a maximum of three months a year to $220 a month for a similar period.

HOWEVER, St. Joseph's Hospital urged that emergency relief funds be extended to cover medical expenses in addition to food, housing and utilities. And the Welfare Rights Organization questioned inclusion of priorities in the proposed emergency relief policy on which the State Welfare Board is expected to take final action Jan. 10. The board gave tentative approval to the new policy by a 3-2 vote last month.

PRESENT PRIORITIES require that first call on the state's emergency funds be given to stranded nonresidents who could qualify for regular relief in their home states if aided in getting there. Emergency relief for Arizona residents awaiting regular relief checks is supposed to be second priority and held to a minimum. Under the liberalized policy up for hearing yesterday, emergency relief grants for nonresidents and residents could be equal to or greater than regular relief grants to residents of one to five years' standing. Among those in favor of liberalized emergency relief at the hearing, in addition to the Maricopa County unit of the NAACP and the Welfare Rights Organization, were: THE UNITED Presbyterian Church (Continued on Page 21, Col. 5) Retirement System Land Is Declared Tax Exempt Property acquired by the state retirement system through foreclosure of its mortgage loans is tax exempt while held by the system, State Atty.

Gen. Darrell F. Smith said yesterday. IM WRITING A MINUTE LETTER TO SANTA.