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I ft If r- i. v- 5 r- A k- if Wi.ll FOET GOLHMS C6L0EAD0AN FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1972 FORT COLLINS. COLORADO 10 CENTS MM never has done us any good. It kills us because people can't get to us. It did the same thing this year it did last year, it killed us for three days." Peterson felt the loss may be recouped.

"If Joe over here makes some money today, he'll be over here tomorrow. It's hurt us during the three-day period, but we'll make it up." Peterson is on the DMA board of directors and has been opposed to the carnival the last two years. "I think they could have a better carnival in," he said. This one didn't work. Last BUSINESSMEN, P.

3, Col 1 their merchandise. But it doesn't help us much. To me it's taking money out of town, the people that have the rides and all," he said. HIS VIEWS reflected those of several other Mountain Avenue businessmen and some Oak Street merchants. Those streets were barricaded for community booths.

Donald Anderson and Kenneth Peterson of Peterson-Anderson Tires Inc. said they too lost money because customers had difficulty reaching their store. Anderson said, "The carnival By DONALD McMILLEN Of the Coloradoan A carnival is supposed to bring fun and happiness. But the carnival that the Downtown Merchants Association brought in for the annual "Sidewalk Bazaar" has caused some dissension among the ranks of downtown merchants. Strong opinions were expressed by almost every merchant in the downtown area, with those opposed voc'ferously attacking the carnival and its location, and those in favor of it vocal in their defense.

"If you see a merchant with to pay the help or the light bill. This old thing of putting your merchandise out and letting people paw all over it and then have to take it back in again is for the birds. "If they want the bazaar, that's fine. But let them go outside the city with the carnival. I've talked to the police and they've had all sorts of trouble with cars broken into We were just talking to a little boy who had his bike stolen.

"There are a few who make money and it's good for them. I'm glad they can get rid of the damn thing abolished. For one thing you work four extra hours for nothing. And as far as the carnival goes, I like it off College Avenue. Did you ever listen to one of those damn things for 12 hours straight?" But merchants on Mountain Avenue don't like the carnival in front of their stores either.

The carnival was moved off College Avenue, which also is U.S. 287, at the insistence of the State Highway Department. Brush's Pet Shop owner Donald Brush said, "I've lost money for the last three days. I didn't earn enough yesterday time of the year when everybody that has merchandise they can put out goes out voluntarilp and works the hours necessary from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and attends meetings.

Even those people who have dropped out of DMA pitch in and cooperate." But Tetirick's remarks about providing recreation and Miss Jarvis suggestions about working long hours fell on deaf ears as far as many employes were concerned. Said one salesman working on College Avenue, "As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to see goods out on the sidewalk, he's going to be for it. If you don't, he's against it," summarzed J.C. Penney Manager J. Guy Tetirick.

As chairman of the DMA promotion program, Tetirick noted, "It is our biggest downtown promotion of the year. We get a lot of customers who say they like the casual atmosphere and look forward to it. It gives the kids something to do by providing recreation for at least three days." DMA SECRETARY Patricia Jarvis added, "This is the one Snlpiviisioiii.iregio Commissioner Warren Wolaver. Road and sewage requirements will be discussed then. Claude Peters, executive director of the Colorado Land Use Commission, will be asked to attend to defend allegations that "the state bureaucracy is trying to take land use power away from the people." Rural lot owners strongly oppose fire control rules of paying for a fire hydrant and pipeline within a mile of their homes which "will burn down anyway." Developers claim the regulations will delay their progress request md on cause the board doesn't meet again until September.

CASE SAID that University President A. R. Chamberlain has indicated that the agriculture board probably would not change its mind on the sale of the because of cost factors. (The location would be the cheapest one of several in the area to develop, city officials said.) Besides being cheaper, however, Case added that the site was ideally located to connect to Bureau of Reclamation power lines. The next best site if on the northeast corner of Mulberry Street and Overland Trail and is too small, has a high water table problem and the soil only has about one-half the "bearing (load) capacity" that the CSU site has, city officials said.

"As we did the final design on the alternate site, we found more and more objections to using it," Case said. "It would be difficult at best to get the heavy equipment in We could make it usable but The law says he High frequency obis in selling lots and that the rules are "a full-employment act for surveyors." Legislators who drew the authorizing legislation demanding the new regulations "meant to keep the power in the control of local officials." Several environmentally-concerned groups offered stricter provisions to the regulations to "make these professional and keep out 'hack' developers who build shacks." LAND USE reform has been called the "most important issue in Colorado" during this election year. In Larimer Coun- meeting land deal it wouldn't be one-half the site that the CSU land is." Case said that delays on site will mean that the substation won't be operational for the next peak load time (Dec. 1972) as was anticipated. THE COUNCIL declined to give a go-ahead on formal preparation for possible condemnation proceedings to avoid giving an "either-or" proposition to CSU.

However, city attorneys are researching the feasibility of condemnation proceedings. CSU has said it wants to retain the land for "aesthetic" purposes. Carson, perhaps indicating how critical city officials feel the site is, asked Sagen if the delay in the substation would affect the power supplied to CSU by the city's electrical utility. Sagen responded "I assume not," and explained that the city light and power department is trying to design its system so that if one of the largest distribution units is lost, the system could "still carry the entire load." couldn't serve young 0 1 i PARTICK F. O'TOOLE the six-year seat if he wins the election.

O'Toole attended Colorado State University and studied philosophy. He also attended colleges in Alabama and Florida before moving to Fort Collins about three years ago. if ia, tin 4 UK'- delays. The 170-foot tower has a 22-foot antenna on top of it and is part of the new police radio system which Smith hopes will be operational within a week. "If I look at it, it'll fall down." That was Police Chief Ralph Smith's reaction about two weeks ago to the new radio tower being- installed behind city hall.

The tower, comp'eted Thursday, has been plagued by ty, the issue has brought more persons to a public meeting than any other topic. In January, a slightly smaller crowd sat in the same Mc-Millen exhibition hall on the county fairgrounds and argued about setting a 2.29-acre minimum lot size, that was one paragraph limiting land use. The current topic of subdivision regulations began as a 67-page document and is now three manuals of almost 200 pages authored by Lowell Soester, subdivision administrator, along with county planners, engineers, sewage and road officials. The regulations are required by Senate Bill 35 which was passed May S. The regulations must be adopted by county commissioners prior to Sept 1.

All subdevelopments since May 5 have been held up pending the adoption and Land Use Commission approval of the regulations. At a meeting on the first draft of the regulations June 28, an overflow crowd at the courthouse auditorium was more angry and accusative of the county officials generally, charging that the rules would "push the little guy out of a place of his own." Between then and the Love-land gathering, meetings have been held between realtors, landowners, developers, lawyers, surveyors and engineers. Thursday, the tone of the meeting was different. There were numerous exanules of levity, several politically-oriented speeches and more agreement on specifics involved, according to county planners. THE DISCUSSION got bitter at one point: J.

Michael Armstrong of 1808 Ponderosa Place, Loveland, a member of the Loveland Planning Commission Environmental Quality Committee, delivered an 18-point list of recommendations. Among them were: Every subdivision shall be required to submit an environmental impact statement. Subdividers should not SUBDIVISIONS, P. 3, Col. 5 challenger O'Toole promised to work for a better quality of life in the district "minimizing the influx of those interests that seek to reduce the beauty of northeastern Colorado to subdivisions and strip mines and to stop the notion that rapid growth is an indication of a better standard of living." He said he would base his campaign with support from three groups: small farmers, Chicanos and students.

These people, he said, "hold the interest and desires of the new populism that is integral with the Democratic party in 1972." O'Toole said that while he doesn't speak Spanish, his wife, Maria, 20, does. He said she le Cuba with her family in 1954. O'Toole was born in Pittsburgh, but spent most of his life in Miami, with his parents. He said his education began with athletic scholarships. He taught elementary school in Miami in 1969 before moving to Fort Collins.

By DAVID STECKEL Of the Coloradoan Except for the absence of campaign buttons and free cigars, the public hearing at the county fairgrounds in Loveland Thursday night sounded more like "a meet the candidates and special interest groups forum" than a serious discussion of future Larimer County land use controls. Results of the meeting where more than 250 persons attended the 10th edition of the county planning office-authored subdivision regulations were: Another meeting is slated "in two weeks" according to City to with By JOHN GAGNON Of the Coloradoan City officials will request a "personal audience" with the State Board of Agriculture to try to buy 1.9 acres of land for an electrical substation. If the board refuses to sell the land, southwest of Mulberry Street and Overland Trail, to the city, a rare possib'lity of one public agency condemning the land of another public agency may result. Timothy Sagen, an electrical engineer in the light and power department and project engineer for the substation, told councilmen that there would be "no choice but to recommend condemnation" if other measures to obtain the land aren't successful. a n's recommendation came at Thursday's City Council meeting.

AFTER THE session, the first in about two months that all councilmen were present the Council held a closed meeting and barred the press from attendance on anything but an "off-the-record" basis. The city charter requires that "all meetings shall be open to the public." Mayor Karl E. Carson said that the meeting was "primarily" to discuss "delicate legal situations" regarding water matters. He argued that publicity on the discussion "would be a real detriment to the good of the community." Asked why, he responded, "As I say, they are very delicate situations." He contended that the law provides for closed meetings "on personnel and legal matters." CONCERNING THE meeting with the CSU governing board, the city administration will request to be put on the board's agenda. Utilities Director Stanley Case recommended that a "personal audience" be requested.

He said that "It's difficult to present our proposal to the (uni-v i y) administration and have them present it to the board. We don't know what's happening and have no chance for rebuttal." When the CSU board declined to sell the site to the city in May, city officials were not at the meeting. Further delay in site acquisition may result, however, be- to feriaEe WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has voted to boost the minimum hourly wage to $2.20, a move that could bring bigger paychecks to millions of workers and more labor support for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. nioniny O'Toole-the Cotaradoan photo by John Gagnon feacst 7.4 million additional workers, including 1.2 million domestic servants, 1 million chain store employes and 4.9 million federal, state and local government employes. It now goes to a House-Senate conferees to reconcile differences between the Senate version and one approved earlier by the House which provides a $2.00 minimum pay scale.

The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 65 to 27 Thursday night after defeating the Nixon administration's proposal for a $2.00 minimum by a 47 to 46 vote. Backers of McGovern hoped his vote would improve his image with labor. The $2.20 minimum was a key goal of the AFL-CIO in this legislative session. McGovern was not endorsed by the AFL-CIO executive council. The bill passed the Senate after two amendments postponed the effective date of the $2.20 minimum to two years, instead of one, and eliminated 1 million employes retail and service establishments doing less than $250,000 annual business.

As approved, the minimum wage would jump from $1.60 to $2.00 for most non-farm workers 60 days after enactment, and to the full $2.20 in two years. votes--to The increase from the present minimum of $1.60 was the largest single pay hike in history. It came after McGovern made a special trip from his vacation retreat in South Dakota to cast his vote. The bill extends coverage to pages The record 11 SECTION Comics 20 Sports 17-19 Television log 20 SECTION IV Classified ads 24-32 Markets 24 Weather 24 jiiiijjjjjjjijjinjjn fecial ::1 iillliP interest I Severely retarded child exists in a Page 5. Living costs rise slightly.

Page 11. U.S. chess expert predicts Bobby Fischer will win the world title. Page 17. Area political candidates meet with' the state's labor leaders.

Page 21. Patrick F. O'Toole, 23, of 1617 Person Court will challenge the Colorado constitutional minimum age requirement for legislators next week. The law requires legislators to be at least 25. O'Toole is predicting that he will be nominated by the Democratic state assembly Saturday for the race in Senate District 29 (most of Fort Collins with large areas of Weld and Morgan counties).

The district has no incumbent. Republican challengers are STATE DEMOS MEETING TONIGHT Hank Brown, 32, of Greeley and James Svedman, 46, of Fort Collins. O'Toole said the Colorado Civil Liberties Union in Denver had promised him after a meeting Wednesday that they "would take the issue to the state Supreme Court." O'Toole said state Democrats would be asked Saturday to authorize a party suit against the law to enable O'Toole to take On inside SECTION I Editorials 4 Obituaries 3 SECTION II Church 16 Dear Abby 10 Helo'se 8 Home and family 7.8 Horoscope 1.