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Legislature 9 longest session draws to close By WILLIAM W. ACTON Citizen Phoenix Bureau PHOENIX The longest legislative session in Arizona's history drew to a close yesterday, leaving among its monuments a package of anti-crime legislation and a medical malpractice insurance system. As before, however, the legislature refused to reform the state's groundwater laws, a prime objective of Pima County lawmakers, and declined to give any public employe group collective bargaining rights. Faced with a deadlock over repeal of the state's mandatory vehicle emissions testing program in Pima and Maricopa counties, the legislature voted to throw that hot potato to the electorate. The question of repealing the legislatively approved modified program will be on the Nov.

2 general election ballot. The approved state budget of about $810 million will avert an increase in the state's $1.60 tax rate, its legislative authors hope. Pima County, once again, won some and lost some during the session. The major achievement was the authorization to spend $1.2 million to equip the University of Arizona library that has stood empty since ithe legislature refused to appropriate the money last year. The legislature's decision to force the Funk family to break up its monopoly of greyhound racing tracks means, in all likelihood, that the combine will choose to sell Tucson Greyhound Park.

All of Arizona's dog tracks are currently owned by the Funks and Ramcorps Metals the successor to Emprise owned by the Jacobs family. The anti-crime package, described by most observers as the toughest one passed in years, was triggered by the bomb assassination of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, who died June 13, 11 days a a remote-controlled device blew him from his car in Phoenix. Police believe they have linked the murder to Bolles' stories on land fraud and other organized crime activities. The crowning jewel in the package is the new statute outlawing secret land trusts and giving beneficiaries of current trusts 120 days to publicly identify themselves or face prison. Legislators have tried for years to crack the trusts, but banks, trust companies and other financial institutions have blocked the attempts on grounds that such a law would be an invasion of privacy.

Another key bill allows criminal conviction on the unsupported testimony of an accomplice, provides for easi- Continued page 2 Taxes Homeowners to pay more, renters less Citizen Phoenix Bureau PHOENIX The Arizona Legislature lowered some taxes and raised others in legislation passed to Gov. Raul H. Castro in the waning hours of the session. The lawmakers assured higher property taxes for homeowners by approving a $4 million reduction in the residential property tax rebate. Last year's rebate was $39 million.

This year's will be $35 million if the U.S. government renews federal revenue sharing, a virtual certainty, lawmakers were told last night. Even if the legislature had approved the same $39 million rebate, homeowner taxes would have gone up because the money has to be spread over more homes this year. The rebate is a state subsidy to school districts and is used to reduce the impact of higher local school taxes mandated by the legislature in 1S74. Apartment owners will enjoy lower property taxes in 1977 and 1978.

The taxable value of their property will drop from 27 per cent of full cash value to 23 per cent in 1977 and to 21 per cent in 1978. The bill requires owners to pass the reductions in taxes on to their tenants. Some legislators warned that the tax break would cost the state as much as $20 million a year. Other legislation sent to Castro on the last day includes bills: --Funding the Pima-Cochise-Yuma-Santa Cruz County narcotics strike force for another year. --Modifying the controversial Pima-Maricopa County mandatory vehicle emissions testing program to make it more palatable to the public.

Earlier, the lawmakers sent Castro a bill putting repeal of the modified program on the November ballot. --Increasing unemployment insurance benefit taxes on employers in an effort to keep the state's jobless fund from going broke. The tax package was modified so these employers with a good layoff record won't be penalized to aid other employers who lay off large number of workers. --Appropriating $7.6 million for statewide construction projects, including $3.6 million to build a new medium security wing at the Florence state prison. --Stiffening penalties for welfare fraud and tightening up reporting procedures for child abuse.

--Allowing Armory Park Apartments, a Tucson nonprofit apartment complex for the elderly, to get a $16,000 property tax refund from Pima County. The owners, a local church consortium, inadvertently paid the taxes last year not knowing the property had been exempted under a new law. The legislature failed to pass legislation renaming Catalina State Park for Abraham Lincoln and appropriating $10,000 to appraise property within the 8,400 acre park. Need a barber chair? If Die interior scheme of your home Is just crying for (he solid beauty of a barber chair, Johnny Gibson is the man to see. He has lots of chairs 33 'Let those men Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn has ordered Oakland A's owner Charles 0.

Finley to use Vida Blue, RolUe Fingers and Joe Rudl. Finley responds by threatening a lawsuil American artifacts Exhibits at the Tucson Museum of Art and Arizona Historical Society feature Americana from revolutionary days through World War I 17 Classified Comics Deaths Editorial 36-18 63 Financial 57 Focus 17-32 Ann Landers Movie Times Public Records 5 Sports TV-Radio Jl Weather IS ilizen VOL. 106 NO. 152 STOCKS PAGE 56 TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, 25, 1976 64 PAGES 15 CENTS Private jobs affected Court tackles major race cases By Wire Services WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today tackled two major racial cases, ruling: --That whites as well as blacks have protection under the law against racial discrimination in private employment. --And that private schools may not refuse to admit black children because of their race.

In a third important ruling, the court said civil servants can be forced to retire when they reach a set age, even if they are able to perform their work. On jobs, the justices said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is "not limited to discrimination against members of any par- Other rulings, page 11 ticular race." The decision was unanimous. On schools, the court reject- ed the argument that private schools and parents have a right to educate children as they see fit if that education involves the exclusion of blacks. The vote was 7-2. On mandatory retirement, the court upheld a Massachusetts law requiring state police to step down at age 50, the lowest retirement age for police in the country.

The ruling was 7-1. The court reached back tc law passed 110 years ago to find that racial discrimination in private employment applies to white persons as well as blacks. John Marshall wrote that in 1866 the reason for the law was to give more relief to emancipated slaves, but he said the measure was not limited to that goal. "On the contrary," he wrote, "the bill was routinely viewed by its opponents and supporters alike as applying to the civil rights of whites as well as non-whites." Justice Potter Stewart called the discrimination practiced by Bobbe's School in Arlington, and Falrfax- Brewster School in Fairfax, "a classic violation" of the law. Parents have a First Amendment right to send their children to educational institutions that promote the belief that racial segregation is desirable, and children have an equal right to attend such institutions," Stewart said.

"But it does not follow that the practice of excluding racial minorities from such institutions is also protected by the same principle." President Ford said recently that while he personally disapproved of the practice, he believed private schools have a right to reject students because of their race. Arizona Going under, creatively Citizen Photos by Tom Bingham Kids are always creative at play even in the way they hit the water at their favorite swimmin' hole. In these photos at Himmel Park Pool, youngsters find interesting ways to go under, emulating an Olympic sprinter, a falling tree and (far right) a technique in which the diver seems to be sneaking up on the water. strikes spread U.S. sues to lift lawyer ad ban WASHINGTON (AP) The government filed an anti-trust suit against the American Bar Association today asking that its restrictions against public advertising by lawyers be declared illegal.

The Justice Department said ABA advertising prohibitions restrain price competition among lawyers and deprive persons needing legal services the opportunity to obtain information about the costs and availability of legal services. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, also said the ABA restrictions have restrained lawyers from making legal services readily available, such as through the development and advertising of legal clinics and prepaid legal plans. The ABA, with headquarters in Chicago, is the country's largest professional association of lawyers with a membership of about 200,000. Delegates to its February convention in Philadelphia voted to permit limited advertising of fees and specialists by lawyers in ABA directories or ABA telephone books, but not in consumer publications.

Weather? Hot! Big bagel theory? This photograph of Mars taken by the Viking I spacecraft from a distance of 1,165 miles shows features similar to formations one might get by dropping a bagel into mud. The splattered effect surrounds the crater Yuty, located near where Viking is supposed to land on July 4. Scientists think that the Yuty crater, 11 miles in diameter, was formed by the impact of a meteorite. UPI Telepboto A jug o' cider, An ole shade tree: Mah hot weather Recipe. --Bill O'Fare More hot weather is forecast for this weekend with Saturday's high expected to be 105.

Highs in the mountains are expected in the 80's. Overnight lows will be from the 40's in the mountains to the lower 70's in the valley. Yesterday's high was a rela- tively cool 98. The overnight low was 68. Full weather report page IS.

Southwest Swimming 1 I -fe Up to 15,000 out of work By RICHARD E. WILBUR Citizen Start Writer Strikes spread in Arizona's construction industry today as Teamsters Locai S3 picketed two Tucson cement materials companies, forcing them to shut down, and walked out at cement product plants in Phoenix. The new labor unrest developed as the Associated General Contractors of Arizona estimated that because of a separate and earlier dispute involving strikes and a lockout, between 12,000 and 15,000 members of five basic construction unions will be out of work by the end of today. There are about 40,000 construction workers in the state. The projects concerned, which are being shut down by members of the contractors group, amount to 1500 million worth of contracts, the association said.

If the Teamsters' strike is effective, this will prevent haulage of cement products to building sites of contractors who don't belong to the association, and who haven't been affected so far, said an association spokesman. About one-fourth of Arizona construction is handled by contractors who aren't members of the association. Tucson Rock Sand and San Xavier Rock Materials officials said they shut down their operations after Teamsters 83 members started picketing the two companies at about 4:30 a.m. Officials of the union in Tucson and Phoe- Continued page 6 Disguises may rub out massage parlor plan Pima County officials are devising a law to stifle prostitution at massage parlors, but the proposed ordinance could be sidestepped if massage parlors staffed by prostitutes simply quit offering massages and resort to other fronts. Aware that prostitution often flourishes under the guise of massage parlors, the State Legislature this week granted counties the authority to impose regulations and fees on parlors.

But the hastily prepared law does not take into account such possible prostitution fronts as escort and introduction services or game rooms. Thus, the nearly 12 phony massage parlors in Pima County could copy a guise used by one operation on East Speedway Boulevard to sidestep the pending regulations. The Speedway operation does not offer massages. For an advertised minimum fee of $25, a patron is introduced to a female employe. The fee entitles him to view a pornographic movie with her, photograph her or paint her body, all in a private room while the woman is nude.

A supervisor in the establishment tells patrons that "anything else is up to you and the girl." Another operation, beyond city limits in a South Side industrial area, charges fees of $10 and more for patrons to play strip pool or strip checkers with female employes in private rooms. Patrons also may buy massages from a nude female. Prostitution is not outlawed by either state or county statutes. However, state laws carry penalties for receiving the earnings of a prostitute and similar offenses. Those laws provided a basis for raids on massage parlors here two years ago.

Counties are powerless to enact laws directly banning prostitution and until this week could not regulate massage parlors. The reason is that the State Constitution allows counties to enact ordinances only on matters the legislature says they may regulate. Despite the loophole in the new state law, Supervisors Chairman Joseph A. Castillo, with the consent of other supervisors, yesterday told staff lawyers to prepare an ordinance imposing regulations on massage parlors. "Basically, our ordinance would require fees for permits and inspections so that the massage parlors that stay in business give massages and nothing else," Castillo spid.

"We'll probably have to have some public hearings and get some ideas from the real massage parlors." He said the county's health department could be placed in charge of the inspections. In 1974, deputies launched raids on the parlors in a prostitution crackdown. They resulted in arrests of about 30 persons and the closure of 18 parlors on the South and North sides. Since then, however, the parlors have moved from the mobile home residential areas to industrial zones after the supervisors passed zoning laws that permit parlors only in industrial areas. "They're (parlors) keeping a very low profile now, no shootings or other reports of violence," Sgt.

Russell Davis, head of the sheriff's intelligence division, said yesterday. Ha said most of the 12 parlors in operation are in a South Side factory area. "We haven't filed charges against them for some time now because they aren't in residential areas anymore," added A Bates Butler III, a deputy county attorney. "We only go after them if receive complaints from their neighbors.".