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6-The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Friday, February 26, 1988 Senate defeats proposal for voters to pick holiday BY LARRY LOPEZ Associated Press Writer PHOENIX Key state lawmakers say they believe they will be able later this session to resolve a long-standing controversy over a holiday to honor murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. They narrowed their focus on Thursday when the Senate killed a proposal to have voters decide directly on whether or not to create a paid King holiday. The vote leaves untouched two other measures that are more acceptable to supporters of the holiday: a straight, federal-style holiday and a "cafeteria bill" that would let state workers pick a certain number of holidays froom a list. In other actions Thursday: The House gave tentative approval to a bill that would require school districts to set "no pass, no play" standards by Sept. 1 to bar students with poor grades from participating in sports, band and other extra-curricular activities.

Sponsor Jim Green, R-Tucson, said he wants to require the standards because the state board of education has not forced the issue as he had hoped i it would. The Senate voted 24-3 to send acting Gov. Rose Mofford a bill to use long-term financing for $141 million in new buildings including $48 million at the west Phoenix campus of Arizona State University. The measure includes projects throughout the state, and opponents said bundling them all together made for pork-barrel politics. The Senate gave tentative approval to a bill that would regulate off-road vehicles and use a portion of the gas tax to buy land for their use.

Mofford might not seek office BY ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN Associated Press Writer TUCSON Acting Gov. Rose Mofford rode in Tucson's annual rodeo parade Thursday and later clarified her plans as either governor or secretary of state. Mrs. Mofford said she would pass up the chance to run for governor 1 in the event that impeached Gov.

Evan Mecham is convicted by the Arizona Senate, if it means she has to resign her post as secretary of state to do so. Mrs. Mofford also said she didn't know whether she would sign any legislation aimed at rescinding a scheduled May 17 recall election. There are bills in the legislative hopper to cancel the recall and declare the office vacant if Mecham is convicted in his Senate impeachment trial, which is slated to begin Monday. Such legislation in effect would allow the secretary of state Mrs.

Mofford to succeed Mecham for the remainder of his term. But she said that if such a measure is approved and sent to her as acting governor, "I'll wait till it reaches my desk and see how it's worded." Even if Mecham were convicted and barred from running for office again, and a court challenge upheld the validity of a recall election upon such a conviction, she said she would not run "if I have to resign as secretary of state." She added, "I could be out of a job entirely, and I just won an Mrs. Mofford is precluded under the state's resign-to-run law from making statements that might imply her candidacy for another office, because she remains secretary of state and is not in the last year of that office. Mrs. Mofford told reporters Thursday she received four "hurtful calls" in the first few days after temporarily taking over upon Mecham's impeachment, but declined to characterize them as threats.

She declined specifics. A number of state legislators and some federal officials who have opposed Mecham, including Sen. John McCain, have reported receiving abusive or threatening phone calls from supporters of the embattled governor, who also faces a criminal trial March 22. On Wednesday, Mecham said "nobody at my instigation" is harassing legislators and that his supporters are not "rude or uncouth or obscene." He also said he would be the only candidate capable of running the state as governor without bowing to alleged power-brokers and alone represents the interests of the people of Arizona. Mrs.

Mofford again denied Mecham's assertions that she has disrupted state government since taking over upon, his impeachment Feb. 5. The state's Republican Legislature killed King holiday proposals for a number of years with little fanfare, saying it didn't want to spend an estimated $3 million to create a paid holiday for state employees or follow the federal government's lead and make room for a King holiday at no extra cost by combining the separate Lincoln and Washington holidays into a single Presidents Day. Then, Democrat Bruce Babbitt, about to launch a presidential campaign, decided in 1986 to end his term as governor by bypassing the Legislature and creating a paid King holiday through executive proclamation. Babbitt's successor, Republican Evan Mecham, promptly rescinded the order in 1987, citing an attorney general's advisory opinion that only lawmakers or voters not governors could declare such holidays.

But Mecham's decision triggered international boycotts of the state by musicians and convention groups, and the House approved a federal-style King holiday last year, only to see the measure die on a party-line vote in the Senate's Government Committee. Now, with Mecham facing a Senate impeachment trial and acting Gov. Rose Mofford supporting a federal-style King holiday, key lawmakers said they expected to see last year's bill get another hearing later this session. "I promised the (acting) Governor that after the trial's over that'll be one of the first things we'll try to do," Senate government committee chairman John Mawhinney, R- Tucson, said after Thursday's vote. Last year's bill or an alternative bill which would let each state Balloons delivered for any occasion by a singing GORILLA GRAM From $14.99 Call 774-86133 in Univ.

Plaza employee pick from a range of possible holidays "will get a hearing," he said. House Minority Leader Art Hamilton, chief backer of the holiday, said meanwhile that there was a "better than 50-50 chance" the House would go along if the Senate passed last year's bill. "I am, convinced there's still strong support," the Phoenix Democrat said, adding that Republican House leaders had promised to let the bill reach the floor unmolested. Thursday's measure, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Kay, would have instructed voters at November's election to vote yes or no on creating an additional paid state holiday. Opponents said that it was sure to be defeated because of cost alone and that the campaign could bring out bigotry that would do further damage to Arizona's image.

"This may stir a lot of ugliness," said Senate minority leader Alan Stephens, D-Phoenix. But Kay, R-Phoenix, said polls indicated most Arizonans were against an additional paid holiday and that lawmakers should let the voters decide. Four Republicans Mawhinney, majority leader Robert Usdane, Carol MacDonald and Jacque Steiner joined the Senate's 11 Democrats i in defeating the measure. Twelve Republicans voted for it. NOVENA TO ST.

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