Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 31

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1972 A I I I Clash with NASA PUS-TV to ignore moonwalks C7 If ll SMtiiltDtheCitiitn WASHINGTON Public broadcasting officials have decided not to televise the mid- December moonwalks of Apollo 17, ostensibly because of extensive, planned commercial coverage and cost of such telecasts. But there is more to the decision than meets the cathode ray. Underlying the Corporation of Public Broadcasting's (CPB) refusal is the apparent sizzling anger of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station managers, who view the NASA proposal to televise the moonwalks in part as an attempt at propagandizing the public at public expense. "It was the source of the offer and the way in which it was made," said Frank Barreca, manager of KUAT-TV, the PBS outlet in Tucson, located on the University of Arizona campus. Barreca is also a member of the PBS board of directors.

"You will note that a government agency CPB -made the offer directly to the stations, bypassing PBS, and asking an answer on the very next day," he said. "We see a very distinct danger here in local programming being dictated from Washington." CPB is the funding agency for PBS. Officials for PBS called the NASA programming proposal an attempt by one government agency-to carry propaganda for another funds from Congress. NASA reportedly has been displeased by the decline in moon-walk coverage by the three commercial television networks, CBS, NBC and ABC, who report a declining viewer interest in space adventures and watching men walk and ride on the moon. During the last Apollo shot, the commercial networks each devoted six to eight hours' coverage to the mission.

And some view the NASA of- fer to broadcasting as a last-ditch effort to help punch up taxpayer support for a space program that seems on the wane. Is the current controversy part of a clash' between a conservative administration in the White House and a group of liberal station managers? "Not at all," said Barrsca. "How can we convince people that PBS is not a liberal, left- wing outfit? The criticism started back when National Educational Television (NET) was in public broadcasting. Well, there is no'NET any more. Now it's PBS, and we can show you programming content statistics to prove that we are not biased to the left, that our offerings'are very well balanced." Officials on both sides are seeking to cool the dispute.

John Golden, executive 'vice president of CPB, said that a mseting Tuesday was the first of several planned negotiating sessions. end objective," he said, "will be a contract between two organizations setting forth respousibilities in operations and authority." The PBS board of directors is composed of 12 station managers and seven "public" members. The CPB is an appointive funding agency. Its new president is a Republican who was appointed by President Nixon. CPB gets its funds from and distributes them, some for PBS to operate the interconnecting system and pay the service bills, some for programming such as "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company." Up to now; PBS has provided programming and the; local stations have been free to accept the programs or turn them down and present their own programs.

-Now Barreca and some of the other managers fear this local control is threatened. Social studies panel advised By CHRISTINA COLLINS Citizen Staff Writer Six former members of the State Basic Concepts Commission for Social Studies last night called for the abolishment of the commission as it now stands, saying that it is controlled by a highly conservative faction headed by Chairman George Archibald of Phoenix. The six southern Arizonians were among nine members of the 28-man commission who resigned last month. They spoke at an information meeting on the commission, one of four appointed by the Arizona Board of Education which are, in the words of Weldon P. ShofstaU, state superintendent of public education, "to direct themselves, exclusively, to the development of basic concepts for their respective disciplines." The four commissions one each on science, history, health and social studies -have, come under fire" by educators who say they are overstepping their stated duties and perhaps narrowing both course content and academic freedom.

'Commotion' asked "We, the people who. resigned, feel this commission should be abolished," Anita Grace- a former commission member from Tucson told about 200 teachers, adminis- Fund probe of Apaches promised WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Sam Steiger, will seek a congressional probe into finances of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona when Congress convenes in January. Steiger promised an investigation when contacted yesterday at his Warrenton, farm just outside Washington. He said, he was appalled to learn of the Apache tribe's financial problems.

A story Sunday said the Apaches were beset by debts and that the tribe was nearly bankrupt. The San Carlos Apaches are now in Steiger's 3rd Congressional District but will be shifted into the Arizona's new 4th District after Jan. 1. Steiger said he. will study the report on the Apache leaders' financial troubles and then seek a conference with Rep.

James Haley, now chairman of the Indian Affairs subcommittee but in line for the House Interior Committee chairmanship in the new Congress. Steiger said he had received complaints from time to time in letter from Edmund Wes-. ley, tribal vice chairman and bitter opponent of Chairman Marvin Mull. "Some of the letters were so intemperate that I failed to see in tfcem the matters that should have come to my attention." said Steiger. trators, parents and students.

"What we would like is for you to make some kind of commotion to abolish the David Weisenborn, State Board of Education president and a Flowing Wells School- District teacher, announced at the meting that he had appointed three board members to a committee to investigate the commission. That action had been decided on at the last board meeting. "There are enough allegations to warrant an investigation," he said. Weisenborn said the committee would be led. by Stephen S.

Jenkins Jr. of Phoenix, and also includes 0. B. Joy of Bisbee and Mrs. Merle Platt of SL Johns, All three board members have appointed persons to the social studies commission, he said.

The board members are to.report their findings at the next state hoard meeting, scheduled for Tasfc unit sought University of Arizona teacher Christopher Carroll, discussion coordinator at the meeting, 'asked members of the audience to volunteer for a task force which would "follow this through to spread our concern." "You're going to see education regulated and controlled from Phoenix," warned Rep. H. Thomas Kincaid, R-Tucson, a member of the audience. "We have to realize that under the present system Maricopa County has the most they think in terms of local autonomy, they think of. the state capital.

"There are pressure blocks in Maricopa County. I think-, you've stumbled on one in social studies," bemadded. Robert Klingenfus. District 1 social studies' director, presented some of the rationale for teaching social studies adopted by the commission after the nine southern Arizona members resigned. Rationale cited The rationale includes that schools to teach students "to understand the of national power and the forces which may wish to Subvert the United States, so that students may recognize and intelligently thwart such threats to their liberty and their nation wherever encountered." The study of history and related disciplines should "endow them (students) with the concept that eternal truth exists," the rationale states.

"These are not arbitrary inventions and cannot be supplanted by classroom ex- Nutritious church LAS VEGAS (UPI) -The city planning commission Has ruled that health food group can qualify as a church. The commission approved a -religious classification for the "Church of Nutritional Science," allowing it to take over a defunct Seventh-Day Adventist church, for the purpose of teaching "the preparation and eating of selected' ercises in social criticism, debate, entertainment or activism," it continues. "Such ad-. vocacy and indoctrination- is inconsistent with education as envisioned by the constitution of the State of Arizona." Deleted from the above paragraph of the final rationale were the last words, "and shall constitute unprofessional conduct." "Dr. (Weldon Shofstall (state superintendent of public instruction), members of the state board and others have put it in writing they think the people of the state want the kind of education they want," Klingenfus said.

"The commissions are given the sole power of determining what is to be taught in these areas, (yet) they are not very representative of the people of this state." Archibald hit Soineof the former commission members also attacked the-handling of the commission meeting by Archibald, charging that he was attempting 7 to retain control of both the'commission, and what it will propose for social studies courses in Arizona. we had to say never reached floor, and if it ever did-it was revised by the chairman," said Barbara Kincaid o'f Tucson. "We realized this man (Archibald) 'was determined his own way," Mrs. Grace said. "Everytime we tried to get something to the floor, he rebutted it." "lean say that substantially what they say is valid," said DoroUiy Shirley, a Tucson High! School teacher who has attended commission "I think we have reached a time of crisis this stiiation has to be-broken, it to be 'Several persons urged that citizen's attend "the public hearings on the commission's report iwhich are required before ffle findings are adopted by the'state Board of A has not been set for the hearings.

no dog's hair SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) California Medical Association offers this morning-after advice for holiday drinkers: --Eat a good breakfast. --Drink coffee to help counteract alcohol's, depressant effects. --Take aspirin to help curb the headache. --Drink fluids throughout the day. "And it is as inadvisable to drivee while you are shattered by a hangover as while you are elated by a bout of drinking." Indian asks court action in challenge (AP) Tom Shirley, 41, a Navajo barred by -a Superior Court order from taking his seat on the Apache County Board of Supervisors, has asked the federal court here for a ruling.

George Vlassis, Navajo tribal attorney, petitioned the U.S. District Court yesterday for a decision on federal questions raised in the order signed by Apache County Superior Court Judge A. L. Greer. Thomas Minyard, defeated by Shirley, in the general election, and three others filed suit in Superior Court to deny Shirley a seat on ground that as a resident of the Navajo reservation he is not subject to rulings of state or county courts.

Shirley lives at Lupton. The suit alleges that Shirley also 'is' a non-taxpayer and was. elected by the votes of non-taxpayers. It contends that as a supervisor he would have power to assess and levy taxes on constituents, thereby violating the constitutional prohibition against taxation without representation. U.S.

treasurer once was head Los Angeles Times News service LOS ANGELES The food products firm now headed by the son of U.S. Treasurer Eo- m'ana Banuelos has been found guilty of unfair labor practices, including threats that illegal aliens who backed the Teamsters Union would tie sent back to Mexico. The ruling was made by Leo F. Lightner, administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board, which now will review the case in Washington. The 55-page ruling made no mention of the fact that, last year Mrs.

Banuelos swore to a Senate committee holding hearings on her nomination that she never knowingly hired illegal aliens. The U.S. Immigration Service, however, had sent her a letter pleading with her to stop Mr- ing the illegals. Carlos Torres, president of Ramona's Mexican Food Products, was named to head the firm when his mother took office as U.S. treasurer, and her interest in the firm is being held in trust.

Teamsters Local 630 brought the charges against the company when the firm allegedly refused to bargain in good faith with the union, which called a strike last March 8. Lightner cited letters distributed to union pickets who were warned that the company knew which "of your followers have no (immigration) papers," and that they might be turned over to the U.S. immigration authorities. Union officials said that since the company was threatening to deport illegal aliens who backed the strike, the officials obviously knew the illegal aliens were employed, at Ramona's. The NLRB judge recommended that the full NLRB order Ramona to bargain in good faith with the Teamsters, The judge also said the company should provide back pay to 132 workers allegedly punished for backing the teamsters.

denies injunction State to press fraud case against Nogales car dealer NOGALES (AP) Asst. Jack McCormick, the state's consumer fraud prosecutor, says he'll ask the Tucson Appellate Court to overturn the ruling of a Nogales judge in an odometer rollback case. Superior Court Judge Gordon Farley yesterday to grant McCormick an injunction against a Nogales auto dealer of violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act. I McCormick sought the court order and fine against Preston Motor Co. and its president, Jrlarold Preston.

McCormick charged that the auto agency had erased about 40,000 miles from the odome- ter of a formerly leased Chevrolet sold to Robert Bejarano Jr. of Nogales last year for $2,400. Preston acknowledged that the car had more than 72,000 miles on the odometer when purchased from Clippinger Motor Co. of Covina, Calif. Bejarano.

said the car's odometer showed 32,000 miles when he bought it. Ben G. Boykin of Tucson, a former used car salesman for Preston, said the odometer had more than 70,000 miles when.he sold it to Bejarano and that Bejarano knew it. The defense contended that Bejarano rolled back the odometer. Judge Farley noted that Preston testified he paid Bejarano, a former service station manager, to repair the engine and that he had given the buyer a one-year guarantee.

Farley said Preston's payment was made last July, about one month after Bejarano had complained to the Consumer Protection Division. In denying an injunction forbidding the dealer'to tamper with odometers, Farley held that Bejarano accepted "compensation and had lost his right to complain." "I don't condone such transactions (odometer rollbacks)," the "but I feel compensation has been made in this case." PAGE AP Wirephoto 6 $100 an inch 5 freeway The nation's most expensive stretch of rural freeway is nearing completion in the Virgin River Gorge in far northwestern Arizona. Highway officials say it is costing an inch to build. Costliest freeway nears completion LITTLEFIELD (AP) At a cost of flOQ an inch, the na-. turn's most expensive piece of rural freeway is nearing completion across, the northwestern tip of Arizona.

When completed in about a year, the freeway will slice through the Virgin River Mountains and trim 12 miles off the Interstate 15 route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. But a more important reason for spending $50 million on the 29-mile stretch, highway officials say, is to eliminate a climb which vehicles now must negotiate through Globe accident Engineer files rail crash suit A railroad engineer who claims he was injured in a 1971 train wreck near Globe, has filed a suit in Superior Court here against the High-speed rail line ME readied NEW YORK (AP) A high-speed rail line linking Boston, New York and Washington will be proposed in legislation to be introduced in Congress in January, the New York Times says. The federally financed plan, to be proposed by Sens. Vance Hartke, and Lowell P. Weicker would be in two steps: --A million improvement of the present tracks, allowing trains to move at speeds of up to 150 miles an hour.

Present top speeds of the Metroliner and turbo trains are 80-100. --Construction of a million air-cushion line that would allow train speeds of up to 400 miles per hour. The first stage would be finished by 1976 and the air-cushion line by 1986. Fastest service at present is three hours between New York and Washington and four hours between Boston and New York. The proposal would cut running time between cities to less than two hours by 1976 and 50 minutes by 1986.

Appendix lode SYDNEY (UPI) Wflfred Miller swallowed his gold tooth cap nine months ago, and when doctors removed his appendix they found it. 'The newspaper Australian said a pathologist at Sydney hospital called it a discovery. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. John R. Bray, the engineer, said he was injured when an SP locomotive struck a parked car which in turn Kit Bray.

The injuries were the result of a series of events in October 1971, when two boxcars broke loose from the lineup as a switch engine attempted to couple them to a departing train. The cars rolled down a grade into downtown Globe. En route, the boxcars struck a passenger car, shoving it into a line of eight parked cars, according to reports at the time, and one of those cars allegedly hit Bray. The pair of runaway rail cars then rolled through Miami and four miles beyond where they crashed into three other freight cars. Three derailed, but the remaining two coasted another 3.5 miles before stopping.

About 450 feet of track was torn up when the derailed, according to railway officials. Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary'words. the sometimes icy, Sh'ivwitsPass." The federal government is picking up more than 90 per cent of the tab. The Virgin River Gorge project' is completely inaccessible from Arizona, guarded on the east by the Grand Canyon and the south by, an un- bridged stretch of the Colorado River. "It's the most expensive of rural freeway in the says Ernie May of the Arizona Highway Department.

"We it would cost a foot "to build, but now we find it's running closer to an inch." 'The figures, he says, represent the cost of paving all four lanes of the freeway. A million contract which nearly will complete the freeway was given last week to Cora Construction Co. of. Grand Junction, Colo. While highway planners have been studying for 25 years the possibility of building a highway: through the gorge, sliced hundreds of feet deep by the Virgin River, it wasn't until the early 1960s that they decided to tackle the project.

A decade later, the last few miles of the gorge route is under construction with seven major bridges crossing and recrossing the river. The remote gorge is the shortest route between here and St. George, Utah. For 11 miles the highway is a canyon so narrow that the divided freeway has to be brought together, separated only by a four-foot concrete embankment. Even then, most of the freeway is suspended above the river bed by bridges.

TEYIP DITAU I TAMLED rr'5 ALWAYS PONE IN THE Now arrante the circled letters to form the iurprise answer, as niKgested by the above cartoon. Newsmen's walkout is delayed CBS obtains judge's order NEW YORK (AP) The debut of a new Walter Cronkite stand-in has been at least temporarily delayed as a judge's order effectively barred Columbia Broadcasting System newsmen from following their union's order to honor picket lines of striking tech-, nicians. The familiar face of Roger Mudd, substituting for Cronkite, filled the screen as the' network's evening news program began yesterday. Cronkite is 'recovering from sm gery to remove a small benign" tumor in his throat. Nonunion personnel who had been rehearsing to take ovecl the program, as Arnold ker did for CronMte during the 1967 strike, stayed in the wings.

CBS won the court ruling scarcely an hour before such regular newsmen as Cudd, Dan Rather, Eric Mike Wallace and John were to have stopped appearing on the air on orders of'the- American Federation of Televk, sion and Radio Artists. AFTRA had ordered its' members to begin respecting the picket lines of 1,200 striking technicians in six cities be- ginning at 6 pjn. But CBS sued, contending that while the master AFTRA- contract had expired, many newsmen-had individual tracts still running. State Supreme Court Justice- Hyman Korn noted that AF- TRA had effectively ordered, such newsmen not to honor, their contracts in order to aid another union. "It seems clear.that the possible irreparable injury that- would flow to CBS from withholding the injunction is far, greater than any injury that" defendants (AFTRA).

might sustain if the injunction is. granted," he'concluded. AFTRA immediately announced that it would appeal the ruling but said that "while" the court order applies only to those news people and enter-! tainers with individual contracts, all of our people win continue to work until further notice." The technicians, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical have been on strike since in a dispute over of certain technical in a new contract. Management and supervisory personnel have filled in for the striking engineers and otter technicians. Blast rips gas tanks in Georgia CARROLLTON, Ga.

(AP) An explosion ripped through gasoline storage plant in. the middle of a residential area early today, setting two huge" fuel tanks on fire. No injuries were reported lust the neighborhood was evacuated. As residents left their- homes, firemen fought to keep flames from spreading to four other gasoline tanks at the storage facility. Authorities said, a truck was unloading fuel at the depot when the blast let go and a gasoline storage tank caught fire.

The driver pulled the truck away from the plant and escaped injury. An elementary school which was about 300 yards from the Standard Oil bulk plant was ordered closed for the day. The nearest house was within 50 yards of the bulk plant. One other building, occupied by Superior Sample was, destroyed by fire. Spokesmen said the tanks were of a capacity of 25,000 gallons each, and the two which caught fire contained gasoline.

Three of the other four tanks also contain gasoline, and the fourth contains fuel oil, the spokesmen said. YtMtnUy'. (Auwcn tomorrow) JiimMn: BOUGH flMTK WMKtN DARING Amvttn Yaumight be pOKoleit to accept ihii--ATOW.