Arizona Daily Sun from Flagstaff, Arizona • 1

A1N1U inuiiiil. ARIZONA FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS May 31, 1989 CHICAGO BULLS New sewer bond may lurk ahead See Page 2 Mofford isn't wild about budget See Page 8 Bulls invade Detroit look to take 3-2 lead See Sports, Page 11 School board faces on budget cuts By PAUL SWEITZER Sun Staff Reporter The Flagstaff School Board learned Tuesday that some of its critics will be keeping a close eye on it as it goes further and further into what may be the painful process of making its 1989-90 budget after the failure of a budget override authorization Gerald Shanks, a Flagstaff contractor who called for the resignation of the entire top administration of the district after the override failed, appeared at the boards special meeting Tuesday to say he represents a group of people which he said probably will call itself Flagstaff Voters in Action. Shanks told the board that he and his committee plan to keep a close eye on the budgetary process as it develops. The board adopted a tentative budget schedule at Tuesdays meeting. The schedule will see a public work session before the regular meeting June 20 and then a special meeting for a second work session and possible adoption on June 27.

Shanks said he and his group people he said would rather work the background and not have their Jenny, a St. Bernard, leaps a hurdle on Nancy Johnston's coming dog show to be held June 10 at Flagstaff Junior High command this morning at Wheeler Park. Johnston and School. See cuts, Jenny were out training for Flagstaff Kennel Club's up- Pa8e5 Students will attend school on new schedule By PAUL SWEITZER Sun Staff Reporter The 11,000 students in the Flagstaff public schools will be going to class on a different schedule next year. Tuesday, after brief discussion and the appearance of one protester, the School Board voted unanimously to adopt its proposed 1989-90 daily schedule, with an unspoken idea that the schedule will be reviewed at the end of a year.

The schedule calls for secondary schools in the district to start slightly earlier than this year and for elementary schools, with four exceptions, to start slightly later. It has been the target of some public concern, mostly expressed through Calls to administrators and board members, because of bus pick-up hours and more released time See HOURS, Page 5 Group buys rights to new TV station will give him a good opportunity to spend more time in Flagstaff, where he owns a condominium. It is a magical place, Tester said of Flagstaff. The Peaks, the culture the mountains it is a town we really love. Sunbelt now is looking for a suitable lot for construction of the new station, Tester said.

No timetable has been set to begin broadcasts, he said, noting that the purchase agreement only recently was reached. Tester says competition will be tight for two television stations in the limited Flagstaff market. Flagstaff is among the smallest See TV, Page 3 By STEVE RYAN Sun Staff Reporter A media group whose co-owners include a Northern Arizona University graduate has purchased rights to construct what would become the second television station based in Flagstaff. As many as five Flagstaff residents also are expected to be taken in as part-owners in the planned venture to bring Channel 4 airwaves alive, creating an alternative to NBC local affiliate Channel 2, according to Jim Rogers, a principal partner in the Sunbelt Group. Sunbelt, whose flagship is Las Vegas NBC affiliate KVBC, recently agreed to pay about $50,000 for the construction permit for what would be Flagstaff's second station, said Rogers, who maintains a seasonal residence in Flagstaff.

Sunbelt now is trying to secure an ABC network affiliation for the planned station, according to Hank Tester, a Sunbelt partner who received his bachelors and masters degrees from NAU in 1965 and 1969, respectively. Our strengths include my ties to the community, said Tester, a former Flagstaff radio broadcaster who said he maintains affiliation with the Museum of Northern Arizona and other local organizations. Tester says the planned television station Both sides want Tachias ordeal ended By STEVE RYAN Sun Staff Reporter Prosecutors are striving to decide within the month whether criminal charges should be filed against Coconino County Supervisor Tio Tachias in connection with financial losses Babbitt Ford allegedly sustained when Tachias worked there as business manager. Maricopa County prosecutor Sandra Janzen will travel to Flagstaff during the first week of June to interview witnesses in the case, which was opened eight months ago, according to Jim Keppel, chief of the white-collar crime division of the Maricopa County Attorneys Office. We want to complete the investigation at that point, Keppel said Tuesday.

Prosecutors want to decide in June whether to seek criminal charges against Tachias, Keppel added. It has taken several months, and Im sure the people in the investigation would like to get the thing resolved. We would like to do it as expeditiously as possible for everyone concerned, Keppel said. Former Coconino County attorney J. Michael Flournoy, a longtime friend of Tachias who recently has been providing some legal guidance See TACHIAS, Page 5 Peppers body lies in state at Capitol Pow Wow comes back ByTEDBARTIMUS Sun Staff Reporter A slice of the Flagstaff Pow Wow will return this summer, but itll be only a morsel of those festive days.

For two days, July 1 and 2, Native American dance teams will compete in a section of downtown while merchants, artists and craftsmen will display their wares. The event is called Flagstaff Cultural Days. We want to prove and show people we can do a cultural event in Flagstaff that can be fun. Youre going to see some fantastic costumes, said Lee Wheeler, president of the Flagstaff Indian Arts Association. The association gave birth to the event, and the Main Street Flagstaff Foundation is helping to coordinate it.

I think this is going to spin business off all over Flagstaff, said Kent Bumes, director of the Main Street office, a program designed to renovate and improve the citys downtown district. 1 Flagstaffs original Pow Wow days, which also were held on Fourth of July weekends, were dis-' continued in the late 1970s because 'of health, traffic and law- enforcement problems. The old pow wows started in the early 1900s and became known worldwide for decades. Pow wow in some peoples tninds brings back the good days, and pow wow in other peoples minds brings back the bad days, said Wheeler, manager of Wheelers Indian Traders, 20 E. Santa FeAve.

Wheeler said this years event will be different from the old pow wow days, except for the dances. During the old pow wows, people would camp in Thorpe Park (they would tamp at Fort Tuthill in later years when the event was moved to the fairgrounds). Additionally, the old pow wow included a parade and rodeo. Its not near associated with what the old pow wow was, said See POW WOW, Page 3 since April 6 suffering from an undisclosed stomach ailment, which a spokesman in his office said Tuesday was cancer. He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he returned a month ago.

Peppers colleagues said he used his opportunities to the hilt, and to the service of his least powerful constituents. In the bosom of that small, gentle man beat the heart of a giant a heart that felt the pain of a world where children go to sleep hungry and where the old die alone, Rep. Joe Moakley, said. He was not just a witness to the century, he helped shape the century, said Rep. David E.

Bonior, the chief deputy whip of the House. Pepper, born Sept. 8, 1900, on a farm near Dudleyville, rose from poverty to attend the University of Alabama and Harvard Law School. In Congress, he was an architect of some of the nations most enduring safety net programs, including Social Security, the minimum wage, and medical assistance for the elderly and for handicapped childien. WASHINGTON (AP) The body of Rep.

Claude Pepper will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda as a tribute to a half-century political career in which he championed the elderly and the poor, his former colleagues promise. Peppers political odyssey, one of the longest in American history, ended Tuesday with his death at age 88. A Florida Democrat who served as a state representative before his election to the U.S. Senate in 1936, Pepper later served in the House after 12 years out of office and became its oldest member. He was always a voice for the voiceless and a helping hand for the helpless, said House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas.

Wright said the House will adopt a resolution today so that Pepper can lie in state Thursday. The Senate was also expected to approve the resolution today, Wright said. Lying in state in the Rotunda is the highest final honor an American can receive. It has been accorded presidents, and more recently to the unknown soldier from the Vietnam war. Pepper had been hospitalized CLAUDE PEPPER i -i I..