Casa Grande Dispatch from Casa Grande, Arizona • Page 2

2 Casa Granrlo (Am.) DISPATCH Wednesday. May.6. 1975 NEWS BRIEFS AROUND THE WORLD Three Twisters rou National Guard Patrolling 3,400 Square Blocks in Damaged Area COMICS CAPER: 'Copfom Marvel' Books Recovered TUCSON i AP) The case of the "cornie-napers" is closed. Police said a teen-aged boy has recovered two boxes of valuable "Captain Marvel" comic books stolen from his garage last Friday night. Paul Touche received an anonymous telephone call Friday night, and the caller toid him his comics were gone and tie would have to pay a $60 ransom for them, deputies said.

Touche and his father went to the designated spot to pay the ransom, but they were unsuccessful after demanding to see the comics before leaving their money on a northeast side golf course. Tuesday night. Touche got another anonymous call, and the caller told him his comics were behind his house, near the golf course, Touche. his father and a sheriff's deputy went there and found the comics, valued at $250. in the FARMERS FIGHT: APS Rate Increase to Be Protested GOODYEAR (AP) Farmers vowed Tuesday night to fight Arizona Public Service rate increase for electricity to operate irrigation pumps.

John Goiightiy HI, chairman of the Arizona Irrigating Farmers Committee, said the group agreed to use funds to retain aii attorney who will present their position at Arizona Corporation Commission rate hearings. A 17.7 interim increase for electric rates granted APS in January is unfair. Goiightiy said. Goiightiy appealed to 22 farmers at a meeting Tuesday night for to fight the rate increases. MAYOR IN: Businessman Named in Parker PARKER (AP) Businessman Bud Morris has been named by the city council to be mayor of this Colorado River community.

The council named Morris to a two-year term Monday night, and Enos Rountree as vice mayor. Morris and Rountree replace former Mayor Paul Lazeiia and Vice Mayor Lloyd Gorreil, who remain on the council for another two years. MAYOR OUT: Sierra Vista Leader Resigns SIERRA VISTA (AP) This southeastern Arizona community is seeking a new mayor On Monday, Mayor Carl Frieders resigned from the city council cited a recent conflict with the council and a need for more time to devote to his job as assistant chief of staff for personnel and administration of the U.S. Army Communications Command at Ft. Huachuca GOING SILENT: Mofy Tyler Moore Plans Special LOS ANGELES (AP) Mary Tyler Moore goes silent for her television special, audaciously titled Birth, Like and Rebirth of the Entire World." Producer Jack Good reports the one-hour show will contain no dialogue, its story line carried by 40 musical numbers.

The cast includes Miss Moore, Ben Vereen. Doug.Kershaw, Manhattan Transfer, Arthur Fiedler and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Roger Wagner Chorale and the California Boys' Choir. Production starts at CBS Studio Center May 9. The' special will appear on CBS in the fall. OMAHA, Neb.

National Guardsmen 3.400 square blocks of Omaha today to prevent looting after tornadoLS that killed three persons, injured more than and did millions of dollars of damage The National Weather Service said the three twisters which hit Omaha among about a dozen which struck widespread areas of northeast Nebraska Tuesday, causing loss of livestock and substantial property damage in rural areas. No deaths were reported outside of Omaha. After surveying the damage in Omaha from First Ships in 8 Years Cruise info Suez Canal ON THE SUEZ CANAL. Egypt -Two West German freighters today became the first commercial ships in nearly eight years to tracel the Suez Canal, steaming from their prison on Great Bitter Lake to Port Said on the Mediterranean in hours: Hundreds of Egyptian workers chanted "Long live Sadat" and "Welcome to the opening of the canal" as the Muensterland and the 8.000-ton Nordwind stopped for the night after the Rfl-miie journey. They head for Hamburg Thursday The two ships were part of a rusting fleet of 15 freighters stranded in the 103-mile-long waterway when the 1967 Arab-Israeli war broke out.

Their release was assured when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announced March 29 he was reopening the canal June 5 to all but Israeli ships, despite the failure of U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's peace mission. "I'm very happy, we ail are very happy to see the ships passing." said Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mashour Ahmed Mashour in Deversmr on the northern edge of Bitter Lake. The freighters, the Muensterland in the lead and the Nordwind a mile behind, entered the narrow shipping channel with the sands of Sinai as a backdrop.

Today's exercise gave authority employes a chance to test navigation and communications equipment, and pilots got the opportunity to try out in the canal (he skills they have been using in other ports. a helicopter, Gov J. James Exon said, yit's just devastating. I've lived tornado country ail my life and I've never seen anything t-nm- parable to this for property devastation. This is.

certainly biggest loss property damage that ever has hit Nebraska;" He said at least 500 homes were destroyed and at least 1.000 severely damaged: Acting Douglas County Corner James Keenan identified the dead as Margaret Butke, 86; Lloyd Kramer, 40; and Myers, 23. Ali were from Omaha. Police said Kramer died when the roof of a northwest Omaha station collapsed while he was standing on it watching an. approaching 'omado Keenan said the Myers woman, a waitress, died when the restaurant in which she was working was struck by a tornado. He said he did no! know how the victim died.

Siorm sirens started mailing at -i rn a huge black cloud rm.vec! in over the southwest, and the tornadoes sw. touched ciov.n. Forty-five minu'es inter, 'he storm alert was over, but sections of this city of 350.OOQ.were in shambles. The two areas mast damaged area the ttiu'hwesi portion of the nty and its southern suburbs ami a 500-square-block area in northwest Omaha. Some of the most severe damage occurred at the 848-unU Wemworth Apartments Ihe city's largest About 70 per cent of the piex.

which houses about 1.800 persons in suburban Ralston on the city's southern edge, sustained severe damage. One Wenuvorth resident. Army William Rollins, said. "I'm wiped out. Everything is smashed to smithereens." Special Drug Task Force Clears First House Test Police Car Crushes Boys Playing in Flagstaff Alley FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.

play for two young entailed rolling themselves up in large pieces of tragically Tuesday when they were struck by a police patrol car and fatally injured. Five-year-old Kevin Adams and 9-year-old Kenneth MulliAs were pronounced dead on arrival at Flagstaff Community Hospital. "Hie incident occurred in an alley near the carpet and drapery shop recently opened by their parents. Henry and Dians Alexander Flagstaff Police Capt. Gean Slayton said the two rolled-up pieces of cardboard, each containing one of the boys, were struck by a patrol car driven by Patrolman Newell Lewis, 27.

Police Sgt. W.A. Roberts said Lewis told him that as he entered the alley, he saw two pieces of carboard rolled up, apparently being pushed by the wind and moving slowly in the same direction he was traveling- Lewis said he let up on the accelerator, but drove over the moving cardboard. PHOENIX which would establish a four-county strike force to combat drug traffic along the Arizona-Mexico border has cleared its first hurdle in the House. The Judiciary Committee Tuesday endorsed the bill to set up a regional drug control council to oversee operations of a drug-fighting unit in Pima, Gjchise.

Yunm- and Santa Cruz counties. The committee, headed by Rep. Peter Kay, R'Phoenix. adopted an amendment erasing the requirement that the administrator be the Pima County attorney. As revised, the governor would be free to choose any of the four county attorneys to serve as administrator.

The change, endorsed by Pima County Dennis DeCorieini, makes the Hoiise bill identical with one before the Senate. Gov. Raul Castro and Atty. Gen. Bruce Babbitt have urged the measure as the prime weapon in the border war against drugs.

Both would serve as supervisors of the force, with the governor selecting the president from among the four county attorneys and-four sheriffs serving on the council. The bill still needs approval of the Appropriations Committee for $725,000 to fund the operation: The money must come from $2.2 million judgment awarded the state in its suii against a major-petroleum'consortium for overcharges. In other House passed and sen! to the Senate by-a 57-0 fete a bill'that authorized the state to sale of land parcels over 36 acres. Sale'of. such'parcels, is currently regulated by neither the state nor federal government.

Rep. John Hays. fC-Varnell. sponsor of the bill, said such disclosures are badly needed. Some of this land is now getting a free tax ride, he said, because it's carried on tax roils as grazing land worth about S7 an acre.

"The bill fills a complete vacuum and would force a-subdivides to disclose the accessibility of water and utilities." said Hays. "Sale lease of the land would have to be registered with the.real estate commission, who would also have to be notified of any intent to issue notes or mortgages The House also passed and sent to the Senate by a 55-2 vote an emergency measure which would allow the city of Negates to take water from. Lake Patagonia to meet deficiencies in its own supply Acting Director of DES PHOENIX James Schamadan, acting director of the Department of Economic Security, will leave May 12 to become senior director of hospitals for Saudi Arabia. In an intervieu Tuesday. Schamadan said he may even leave a day early.

"The reason this is on a -ush basis is because Saudi Arabia's largest city, Jidda, has hao its fresh water supply interrupted, 11 he explained. "The newest hospital there is using sea water to flush its toilets." The problem is serious, but not an emergency, said Schamadan. 48. Schamadan. who came to the Department of Economic Security (DES) six weeks ago after heading the state health department, said the major trouble in DES is a lack of communication with the legislature.

"I'm a big believer in commumcaton," he said. "Bridges need to be built. Both sides have sort of dug their heels in." Schamadan succeeded William Mayo, who resigned after criticizing Ihe governor's office and legislature for interfering with welfare operations. Mayo, who was a "superb administrator." may have let the communication process slip while concentrating on more dreary aspects of DES. Sehamadan said.

Hercules Returned To Owner PHOENIX (AP) Fourteen- year-old Jack King Jr has been-granted custody of Her- tules. his pet quail, after a nine-month battle with the Arizona Game and Fish Commission. Maricopa County Superior Judge Irwin Cantor Tuesday ordered the Game and Fish to grant King a permit so he could have Ilhe bird. State game officials seized IHercules from the boy's home last September on the grounds it was a wild bird and not be kept as a pet. The quail was hatched from 'an egg sn a science classroom -at Paradise Valley High School, was given to King to take -home when no one else wanted to take care of it had applied for a hobby Hercules last year.

After UK- Game and Fish turned him down, King filed suit Hercules in the was boarded out at Phoenix Zoo pending out, come of the action "This ruling does not stand as a precedent that wildlif" be obtained from the wild a license issued." sara Can- "tor ir. issuing his decision King, notified of tiw 'Ifrision a reporter called him at kep repealing "Oo vou really nvan i'" fan. I really take him home?" The boy's became' iirn- hrrront and whnn the rrpnrlcr asked him to clearly 'hf youth replied "1 can't I'm jumping up and down SUNDAY, MAY 11th I Come on You And Ihe Kids can Fix Mom's FAVORITE DINNER! LocaiSy Raised fiskJ.BJor His Leg of Lamb Recipe and Whole Lambs also Available! PAC! Final County's Only Packing Company Vtei-McMurrayBlvd. 836-219? Casa Grande Prices Effective Friday ond Saturday, May 9 and 10 U.S.D.A. Choice Beef Chuck Steaks, libbj's Corned Hash (JS'j Oz.) Can BOIISiSSS Stew Meat ChoiceB Meat Wieners SuM Jemima Sudahy, Sar-S-Brand LO, Canned Luncheon Com Bread Bar-S-Brand Grade A Milk BordeirMaMam- Sliced Peaches Hura 5 (wio.ame) Salad Dressing Cream of Mushroom Soup Evaporated Milk Dei Monte Sweet Peas Ranch Style Pinto Beans Rainbo Brown 'N Serve Rolls Kraft Upton Tea Bags Welch's Grape Juice Keebler Cookies -Kt PepShCOla 12 Oi Canned Pop Joy Lemon Liquid for Dishes Kleenex Dinner Napkins 12 Or.

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