Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 2

PAGE 2 fttl offkir as second cltts malttr A I I I SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1968 Qiolla Blossoms Forth On Desert School District 1's seventh high school, Cholla, begins to take shape on son's West Side. The $3.7 million facility, designed by Nicholas Sakellar soclates and being built by the Del Webb Construction will accom- modate about 1,400 students when it opens a year from now. The Cholla site is at the extension of W. 22nd St. and S.

La Cholla Blvd. near the base of Mountain. (Citizen Photo) Pima College Tax Hearing Delayed By Bias Charge A hearing will be held at 9 Monday before Superior Judge Richard Roylston in a taxpayer's suit-to block the Board of Supervisors from levying 1.5 million in taxes for Pima College capital outlay. The hearing was postponed yesterday after attorneys for the college fikd an affidavit of prejudice to remove Judge William Prey from the case. Board president Jacob C.

Fruchthendler said he had learned Frey "had expressed a personal opinion about the case, and we felt we should not chance the possibility of a personal view carrying over into the courtroom." Frey ordered a temporary restraining order remain in effect until after the hearing to keep the Board of Supervisors from levying the funds. William Dumes, candidate for county treasurer, filed the suit, contending the tax is illegal and that the college's construction should be restricted this year to the $5.9 million its taxpayers approved in a bond issue last October. Alvin Korngold, Republican candidate for conty attorney, has filed, a petition to intervene in the suit in Dumes's behalf. LBJ Signs $21 Billion Road Bill Sees College Levy i gering 'Tax Rebellion' By GIL MATTHEWS Othen Staff Writer County Supervisor Dennis said today taxpayers rare rapidly "losing lafth" in the iPima College Board of Gover- -nors as a result of the school's to obtain million in Itaxes for capital outlay. I Noting that the supervisors -have recieyed dozens of com- plaints from property owners 'disgruntled with the plan, Weaver college's asserted, fact is they just plain like tt." He added: "They think this and-a-half is being -shoved down their throats too "fast.

They feel that if another million was needed for cap- -ital. outlay, it should have been -included in, the college's original Ibond issue." (Last October, taxpayers ap- 'proved $5.9 million in construe- -tion in a bond election.) Weaver, holding a copy of a magazine article which detailed the attitude of voters nationally towards rising taxes, said, "I think it is time we (elected officials) started looking towards tax reduction. The people are on the edge of a tax rebellion." He said that "people are get- ing in the mood to start turning down bond issues and to look carefully at anything where tax money is involved." Weaver and Supervisor Chairman Thomas S. Jay are particularly upset at the college situation because most of the complaining citizens have been )laming the supervisors for the ax, the legality of which is being challenged in Superior Jay said, "I wish they would dir-t their complaints to the Junior college board. We didn't lave anything to do.with pro- Old Tucson Income Soars; Dividend Up Preliminary figures indicate Old Tucson's net income has from $400 last year to $25,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, according to Old Tucson Development Co.

President Robert D. Shelton. Gross income, up 52 per cent from $424,700 to $643,500 for the period, could reach $1 million this year if attendance continues to increase as it has the past 50 days, Shelton said. In view of the increased earnings, Shelton said the company has declared a five per cent stock dividend for stockholders of record Aug. 30.

There are 290,577 a outstanding owned by approximately Earnings for the past fiscal year were 8.6 cents per share Currently, a "Death Valley Days" series is being shot on Old Tucton's wand stage, and the "Hifh Chaparral" cast Sept. 1C for four weeks of filrafof, SbettoQ stid. Candidates Invited Ail for political of flee tte Sept 10 primary been farted to appear the Itallaft-Ameri out dub, XS7 N. ftoae Are. at p.m.

Tuesday to meet moting any part of the capital outlay tax or even the bond issue. "In fact, we have questioned the capital outlay tax ever since it came to our attention about a year ago. We are simply charged, with the responsibility for levying taxes for the budget the junior college board approves. It is not an optional matter." Weaver said, "We are actually law to collect the taxes for any political subdivision. We are the only tax-collecting agency in the county." Three From Tucson Quit Czechoslovakia Three Tucsonians two of them newlyweds on their honeymoon were reported safely out of Czechoslovakia today.

University of Arizona professor Dr. William C. Peters, who was attending the International Geological Congress in Prague when Red troops overran the country, was among tourists transported by the Czech government to Austria yesterday. And newlyweds Andrew and Kim Sheter arrived yesterday in West Germany in a convoy. Peters, professor of mining and geological engineering, telephoned his Lane, 5702 7th from Vienna.

He plans to return home Sept. 3. The Shetters were reported safe by the office of Sen. Paul Fannin, according to the bride's mother, Mrs. George Palmer 5602 N.

Wilshire Blvd. No report has been received here about another UA faculty member, Dr. Joe Malik Jr. professor of Russian, who was visiting Czechoslovakia with his teen-age daughter, Lisa. Russians Fire On Demonstrators JOHNSON CITY, Tex.

(UPI) President Johnson today signed a $21 billion highway aid )ill that leaves a red light in ront of his wife's pet program clear away billboards, screen junkyards and beautify roadsides. The bill was signed despite iiterior Secretary Stewart L. Udall's unhappiness over provisions to force Washington D.C. to proceed with its controversial freeway system and to soften federal powers to ceep freeways out of park Where President' Johnson a year ago requested $85 million 'early, for three years to carry on the beautification program, the bill' authorizes only $27.5 million through. mid 1970 and only $2 million of that for billboard removal.

Any actual money must be appropriated in separate legislation. The basic omnibus bill authorizes $21 billion in new or expanded aid to complete the interstate highway system ant build other roads ranging from primary highways to forest trails, It okays an additional 1,500 miles of interstate highway to fill -in "missing links" bringing the total to 42,000 miles -and extends the deadline for funding the program from 1972 to 1974. The bill also includes an ex panded program of relocation assistance.to families and smal businesses forced to move to make way for freeways. It okays experiments in "fringe parking" on edges cities tied in with rapid transi downtown, tests in new traffic control systems, ramps or other projects to ease citj bottlenecks. While the aid is al ways popular, Udall was joined by i a con servationists in objecting language making more dis the existing mandat that the Secretary of Trans portation veto freeway projects through park lands if any other feasible and prudent route can be found.

From Page I Czechoslovak, leaders had "invited" Soviet bloc forces to march into this country five days ago. In the hours before he square outbreak, Soviet troops had "hosed down" sections of Prague with mortar and machinegun fire but were defied with shouts, slogans and sabotage. There was a hint defiance might be paying off. Informed sources in Moscow said Czechoslovak Communist party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, arrested Tuesday by the Rus- lans who came to smash his reform regime, had been taken the Soviet capital and allowed to join Kremlin talks on the crisis. But violence spoke in Czechoslovakia, Soviet mortar and machinegun crewmen hit near a student dormitory of Prague's ancient university.

Underground radios said Soviet gunners killed at least four persons arid wounded 45 more at Liberec, a northern Bohemian town. The -Clandestine broadcasts said the'Soviets opened fire ai Liberec when youths hurled stones at their tanks. In Prague, besides the square and the dormitory, such usually crowded spots as the Palacky Bridge and the Letna tunnel at the Vltava (Moldau) River were scenes of shooting. The Rus sians also fired in such spots as Charles Square, the old market place and the front of the Communist party Central Committee building. i a Czechoslovaks scrawled on walls such slogans as "Lenin, wake up--Sovie party leader Leonid I.

Brez- has gone mad." The radios claimed Soviet secret police and Czechoslovak collaborators were carrying out mass arrests of reform journalists and intellectuals. Police trucks rum- led through Prague streets. The underground broadcasters also said at least four Russian soldiers have been killed by Czechoslovaks. The radios said there are first signs" the invasion has begun to break down this industrial nation's distribution They said bread and potatoes are Czechoslovaks line up. outside food stores.

'rague service stations began uniting gasoline purchases. But Aussian bullets were the city's first concern. Stray bullets splattered into lie walls of the American Em- sassy. U.S. Marine Embassy guards said the Russian gunners ap- eared to be "hosing down" sockets of trouble.

Underground 'freedom" radios said Czechs across the country moved to harass the Russian, Polish, East German, Hungarian and Bulgarian occupiers. getting short. have begun to FBI Charges Man With Bribery Try A 22-year-old contracting company employe was arrested at Ft. Huachuca yesterday by agents of the FBI on charges of attempting to 'bribe a civilian employe to obtain classified documents. Released on $5,000 personal appearance bond after arraignment before Acting U.S.

Commissioner Raymond Terlizzi was Wesley James Lowder of Sierra Vista. He was ordered to appear for a preliminary hearing on charges of attempted bribery at 1 p.m. Aug. 30. Spokesmen for the FBI said Lowder was an employe of the Atlantic Research which holds construction contracts at the base.

He was arrested according to the FBI, after an investigation revealed he attempted to bribe a civilian employe at the Ft Huachuca printing plant to obtain pages of specifications fo a contract to be let soon. Spokesmen said the man obtained a few pages of the speci fications but "did not get tfo entire document." 60 Soldiers Protest Riot Duty, 43 Go To Stockade FT. HOOD, Tex. (AP) Sixty soldiers stationed at Ft. Hood protested today possible movement to quell civil disturbances and Military Police put 43 of them in the stockade, a spokesman at the Central Texas fort said.

The spokesman said the protest was orderly. A large number of troops, estimated at about 1,000, were taken from Ft. Tood to Bergstrom Air Force Base at Ausin, the nearest large airfield, during the night. Presumably they will be on standby for possible use in the event of threatened disturbances at the Democratic Nation- South Koreans Kill Intruder SEOUL (AP) South Korean troops killed a North Korean intruder today in a predawn clash in the central sector of the Demilitarized Zone, authorities announced. A group of armed infiltrators were attempted to sneak through a barrier fence on the southern edge of the DMZ when intercepted by defending troops, it said.

A brief fire fight ensued and one of the intruders was killed while others fled northward. al Convention at Chicago. But military authorities restated their policy of secrecy regarding all troop movements. The spokesman said, "Beginning at approximately 2400 hours midnight Friday, a group of 60 Negro soldiers from various units at Ft. Hood conducted non-violent protest against possible employment in civil disturbance control." Mine Flood Laid To Faulty Maps WASHINGTON (AP) The Bureau of Mines has blamed outdated and inaccurate maps for the minewall breakthrough that caused an underground flash flood, killing four men and trapping 21 others near Hominy Falls, W.

last May. The bureau reported Thursday the men did not realize how near they were to an adjacent flooded mine. It said the miners' maps were old and included at least one surveying error. Fifteen men were trapped for five days after the mine accident May 6. Six other miners, given up for dead, were rescued after a week and a half underground.

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Chou's warning came as Romania celebrated its 24th anniversary liberation during World War II. World outrage over the occupation of Czechoslovakia showed no signs of diminishing. Similar warnings have been issued by West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and the chie(, of Switzerland's general Paul Gygli. Both nave cautioned that the Soviet Union and its hard-line allies might swing into Romania at this time. In Havana, Premier Fidel.

Castro of Cuba, breaking his Romania Next? silence on the invasion, joined North Vietnam, North Korea and Mongolia in approving it. "The socialist bloc had a right to prevent in one way or another that Czechoslovakia could fall into the arms of Imperialism," he said. In Belgrade, another Commu- nist header, President Josip Broz Tito of a i a pledged a fight if the Soviet Union. tried moving in on his country. Tito supported the liberal regime in Czechoslova- "We must say clearly to everybody that know to defend our free development regardless from which side the danger came," Tito told the Yugoslav Communist party leadership Friday.

Chou En-lai branded the occupation as "a sign of general bankruptcy of Russian policy" and pledged China's support for Czechoslovaks in "their heroic struggle of And then he said Romania was endangered. Romania, a member of the communist Warsaw Pact which has also shown signs of softening hard-line Communist policies, is bordered by Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and the Black Sea. Anti-Soviet demonstrators in Paris Friday night threw steel balls through the windows of Intourist, the Soviet travel agency. Police arrested 14 of them. In (he Netherlands, the Dutch Broadcasting Co.

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