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Commissioner Says Land To Be Park A county commissioner said Thursday he felt like bride who picks up the paper and reads the groom-to-be has mar- someone when he read the city was considering selling five acres of land near the County Farm to an individual. Rut the commissioner and his 0 associates decided the probably will come off as scheduled and the land will become part of a county park, as scheduled. Not so definite, however, is the routing of some Department of Public Utilities lines through the area and representatives from the utilities and the El Paso County Park and Recreation District board were meeting in the utility office today to try and settle the differences. Some 480 acres of county- owned land, a part of which is occupied by the County Farm and the Zebulon Pikes Juvenile Detention Center, is destined to be made into a large county park. The city owns five acres just west of 21st Street, in the heart of the area.

year, in a series of meet ings, the city and county worked out a agree by which the county would let the city utilities run a high voltage line through the area in return for title to the five acres which will then be included in the park. On city council agenda was an item proposing the council consider selling the land to Ben Pinello who ownsi other land in the area. Commissioner Jack Mitchell said when he read this he felt, like a disappointed bride-to-be. Robert Hall, chairman of the; park board, said he had been reassured the item was a mis-, lake, put on the agenda apparently by the city administration which was unaware of the city- county agreement. Hall said, however, the route of the utilities lines was a different matter.

He said somewhere along the line, from the time the agreement was reached until the utilities line 1 Jiite was mapped, there had been changes we bird dog Ray Nixon, utilities director, said before going into meeting with Hall and other park board representatives, the route of the lines was mapped just like it had been agreed upon except for a change east of 2Ist Street which had the approval of the county commissioners. With Reservation Land Use Control Bill Gets Prelim House Okay Colorado gives the regulatory powers to tive approval Thursday, the House Thursday gave the county commissioners. control lies with the preliminary approval to a sore-i Where the bill bogged down county commissioners though ly-contested land use bill that and picked up dissidents was every attempt was made to give will give boards of county com- the point where Boulder Re-jthat primary power to the land missioners power to exert rigid publican Sandy Arnold at-use commission, control over future subdivisions tempted to piggy-back anotherj bill now states that sub- in the state, but stripped away land use bill atop the first hop- dividers must meet minimum a similar control over existing ing to come up with a tough standards established by the developments. over-all land use package. ijgnd use Arnold The bill rode into the senate The piggy-back bill would said, on a wave of controversy and have allowed a At various attempts carried the bitterness with it move: in essence, it would haveiwere and into the house earlier this the county commissio-jnot only give the land use corn- fanned largely by opposition i pers to herd land developers primary power, but to from real estate interests and back before them and stamp, insure that they would have hordes of lobbyists.

jthe same tight restrictions onlregulatory control to override Fraught with confusion after developments as they any decisions the county corn- one heaped on apply to future ones mis.sioners might make, other, the bill as finally accept-j accepted the bill Even with the changes in the ed lets theh Colorado Land Use gHowing for future control, but Commission authorize specifica- one on a 36-22 .1 A SPRAY OF Firemen concentrated a spray of water on flames coming through the roof of a vacant condemned house in the 400 block of North nut Street. Two fire companies responded to the blaze which firemen reported had probably been started by children playing with matches, (Gazette Telegraph Photo) No Menial Jobs for Welforeites If Some Legislators Have Their Soy get-tough wel-'session, Chestnutt has been an fare bill was given ap- advocate of tough welfare proval in the Colorado house form. He has worked hand-in- Thursday over the protests of li-glove with former El Paso beral Democrats, who feared County Welfare Commissioner recipients would be relegated to! Jack Mitchell to get welfare re- meanial jobs. I form legislation passed. The bill cracks down on wel-! At various times, Chestnutt fare recipients and tells emplo-lhas been aided at the state- yable recipients: bill on welfare reform not take a job it is only by Mitchell, but by the offered them.

publican Wife, -If there is no job, get on the Ellen, who is a deputy district federally-instituted work pro- attorney in the 4th Judicial Dis- grams, administered in the trict, and herself a welfare restate by county welfare, depart- formist. ments. Chestnutt has steadfastly ar- If the recipients refuse to do gued that welfare people could either they could lose their be gotten off the dole if they to dependent ADC'were forced either (to accept a category monies. job with little recourse, or be Democrats in the house ar-i forced to take part in work gued the bill would relegate training programs. welfare recipients to menial The welfare critic and activist collectors, street has also argued that welfare de- sweepens, elevator operators, I partments, such as the one in etc.

Colorado Springs, their The bill was staunchly sup- own bureacratic empires by ported by El Paso County Re-keeping people on the dole and publican Rep. Bill Chestnutt, refusing to let them From the beginning of thisi Such a work-training program advocated by backers of the bill is the so-called incentive WIN, as it is called for short. People who participate in this program still retain a portion of their dole, in addition to extra money they get for being involved with the program. Democrats, belligerently at times, argued that there was no coordination between various agencies of welfare, thus ham-' pering not only the ability of the welfare recipients to find but their desire to find them, is a cruel crat Ruben Valdez of Denver said. Rep Don Friedman R-Denver, argued that the reason people are on welfare because they find He pointed out that the state spending bill contained provisions for funding 120 homemakers jobs and said that least 120 people will be taken off the welfare roles and put into meaningful jobs.

I am proud of tions and regulations for the developments, but ultimately CEA Exec Expects Crisis if Tax is Abolished The Colorado Education Association (CEA) supports the of the ad valorum I property tax as the major of revenue for school financing, but to abolish that tax without a sound financial replacement would create greatest educational crisis this adopted in any of the 50 state has ever Dr. Nonetheless, Arnold said that ert H. Johnson, executive se- while the bill was it cretary of the CEA said here would have been super-fantastic vote count. Even at that, Arnold sure the piggy-back bill was killed. It was assigned to committee and he hopes that the committee will somehow at- itach it to another land use bill, bears the same bill title, Ibut which contain the same demanding land use regulations.

Still, Anold said Thursday after debate on the bill: bill we passed on preliminary here today gives us rigid control over future subdivisions. It is a far reaching bill and as far as concerned is the strongest piece of legislation Thursday, Dr. Johnson addressed the opening session of the delegate assembly meeting at the Broadmoor Hotel. The delegate assembly is the 500-member of the policy-making body of the CEA which represents most of the teachers in the state. The fresh winds of initiative had wc been able to get the other bill (the piggyback one) Arnold say whether the other bill was dead.

have the good faith to believe that the committee will give it a good hearing. Whether vote it out or not, I The end of the session is drawing near, but Arnold still referendum concerning the there was time. bill, the laad use commission still will be able to review the county commissioner actions and seek a cease and desist order for any developments they feel are breeching the minimum requirements set forth in the bill. bill gets total control of subdivision Arnold said. involves not only adequate water and sewage systems, but anything involving streets, roads, school provisions, the whole works.

The total subdivision apparatus. With this bill I think get away from granting rights to subdivisions that are too loose- With the one bill now taken off the hump of the other, the offending bill now rests in the local government committee. There had been an awful lot of controversy over who should have had the control in the land use commission or the county commissioners, El Paso County Republicans Kay Munson, Harrie Hart and Bud Edmonds voted for the bill shorn of requirements for the future. Republican Bill nutt, a developer, voted against the bill. Democrat Harold The Rev.

Olley to Head Local Catholic Schools Injun Wo0i.y The trouble with big government is they always think big with small minds You take the vast urban renewal boondoggle back in 1961 they was spending 3.9 Billions on it. You might think, logically, that this amount would be enough waste to find out if it would work But logic never holds sway with Big Brother pushers. They had to keep puonding sand down the rat hole until in 1973 it is estimated we will have to cough up 31.5 Billion Geets! This represents some 160 Billions already. Presently Washington is flowing more than 27 billion dollars a year schools, freeways, transits, police, welfare, housing and added graft and corruption At least we have finally made a little headway Sec. Romney has admitted it all is doing no good.

Why it have been admitted ten years ago? As one president once remarked long ago about another bureau do they do it that way? Do they do it on purpose or are they just As far as urban renewal is concerned it is both. It has to be, for your local whips still continue the outlandish frittering away of tax dollars for projects to help the poor and destroy places of business with their pipe dreams of malls, canals, parks and open spaces. They seem to reckon that the era of wheels is here people with cars are going to move out to broader reaches, and all the money in creation will not prevent it. Business and industry could survive if government would reduce its taxes instead of piling more and more upon it, for renewal which eventually forces free enterprise to abandon the inner city for greener pastures. even to foreign lands Woody Palmer AXING ENTRY Firemen chopped their way through the roof of a vacant burning house in the 400 block of North Chestnut Street.

The house was a total loss. (Gazette Telegraph Photo) John C. Rivera Rites Scheduled The Rosary will be recited at 7:30 Sunday in the Chapel of Memories Mortuary for John C. Rivera, Fountain, who died Wednesday in a local hospital. The funeral Mass will be sung at 10 a.m.

Monday in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, with the Rev. Richard Buhr, celebrant. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Fountain. Pallbearers will be Floyd Martinez, Johnny Abeyta, a i a Trujillo, Paul Rivera, Kenneth Vasquez and Valentine Vallejos. Mr.

Rivera, 79, was born March 30, 1893 in Elkins, N. and had been a resident for 52 years. He was a retired Civil Service worker from Ft. Carson. He was affiliated with the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Arcelina Rivera; 10 daughters, Mrs. Lucy Trujillo, Mrs. Tersie Vasquez, Mrs. Geneva R.

Martinez, Mrs. Emma Enriquez, Mrs. Ida Abeyta, Mrs. Martha Vallejox, Mrs. Regina Rubalad, Mrs.

Bernice Reyes, Mrs. Margaret Sosa, and Mrs. Lena Garsa; two sons, Damina Rivera and Bennie Rivera; 48 grandchildren, and 32 grandchildren. The Rev. Edmund W.

Olley of Milwaukee, Wis. will assume the position of principal of St. High School and superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Colorado Springs area in July of this year. The announcement was made Thursday by the Rev. David K.

executive director of the Ckilorado Springs Metropolitan Board of Catholic Education, and area director of education for the Southern Area of the Archdiocese. Father Olley will replace Sister Patrick Marie Sharpe, S.L. who is the current principal of St. High Schoo. Father Olley was born in Racine, was ordained in May 1950; possesses a masters oTTd- Sheets, Gowns Recovered, Man Arrested Police arrested a 23-year-old man at 4:45 a.m.

today for investigation of a burglary at St. Francis Hospital where three dozen sheets and five hospital gowns were stolen. According to Officers James Lilly and James Dytri, a 42- year-old woman was also apprehended but later released. Another man escaped from the officers at the arrest scene. Lilly said he followed a a that was northbound on Prospect Street and noticed that there was a large amount of covered goods in the rear of it.

He stopped the car in the 500 block of East Kiowa Street and one of the men ran from the scene. A check of the covered goods revealed that they were from St. Francis Hospital and Lilly said he learned that the laundry room of the hospital had been burglarized. Lilly said the burglars entered by breaking a window. The gowns and sheets were valued at $93.50.

ucation degree; and Is a doctor-, al candidate at Marquette versity in Milwaukee, Wis. i He has been a teacher in social studies, theology, group guidance and counseling. He has held the position of athletic director and coach, as well asi being an assistant pastop. Cur-i rently he is the principal of Pioj Nono High School in Mil-' waukee, a position he has held since 1965. While in that position he was repsonsible fori the construction of the present! Pio Nono High School, a com-i plex capable of accomodating! 1,200 students.

In the fall of year Pio Nono High School willj consolidate with Don Bosco High School and come under the direction of the Brothers of the Society of Mary. The upcoming consolidation has made it possible for him to assume the Colorado Springs position. Father Olley has been a consultant to the Academy for Educational Development, which conducted a comprehensive study of the needs of Cath- 0 1 i Education in Colorado Springs in He has been acquainted with the city and deeply interested in the progress which has occurred since that time. He is known as a guest lecturer fromSpokane, Wash, to San Jose, Rica He has been a member of jpecial committees of the National Catholic Education Association working in the areas of Guidance for Secondary and Long Range Financial Planning. Both projects were funded by Ford Foundation grants.

He has been a member of the Milwaukee Senate, was executive director of the National Catholic Guidance Conference from 1960-1968, and has served as chairman of the Board of Control, Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Pulpit Rock Master Plan Given Okay City Planning Commission Thursday approved in concept the Pulpit Rock Master Plan, a proposed 345-acre development, southeast of Dublin Boulevard and Achison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad right of way. Mrs. Bruce Pattie of the Springs Area Beautiful Association (SPABA) asked commission to table the item. She noted that acquisition of the property would mean much to the City of Colorado Springs in its effort to preserve wilderness areas.

The park board recently moved to obtain a few acres of the property for parkland but not a 200-acre parcel as suggested. A provision in the action stipulates that the city planning department continue its negotia- lishment of the property tax in Colorado must carry with it specific plans for a replacement formula that will not jeopardize the underpinning of the finance structure of support for the public Dr. Johnson said. He noted that in Colorado there exists great discrepancies in the amount of revenues available from the property tax for the support of local school districts. He said that in one district in Colorado, one mill levied on all the property in that district will provide $69 per pupil; in another district one mill will provide only $4.60 per pupil.

Dr. Johnson said that the most important issue CEA is facing in the legislature rise in the level of support under the school foundation act from $460 to $518 per pupil. CEA will continue its efforts to achieve the $518 per pupil throughout the legislative session, he said. He said that in the 1973 legislative session, teachers can look forward to continuing attacks on teacher tenure. this he said, is difficult to anticipate precisely the nature of these attacks or who, in the legislature will be sponsoring them.

is of immense importance to CEA to note that we are in a position at the present time to move from the defense to the offense by securing support for the comprehensive governance program that has been in the planning stages for two he said. have the opportunity to demonstrate to legislators who have attempted to diminish the rights of all teachers in order to aid the profession of a small minority who have demonstrated incompetence and negligence that CEA members have matured to the point where we are prepared to handle the problems of the The CEA conference continues through Saturday and the delegate assembly will act upon some 60 resolutions, many of these dealing with legislative issues. As the bill emerged on tenta- Evetts also voted for the bill. Friday, April 14, 1972 4 mck It The most Rev. William E.

ion with the petitions, J. D. Cousins, Archibishop of Mil- Dye, and work with respective waukee, has given permission departments to exhaust all pos- for Father Olley to be on lease sibilities for acquisition of a 200- to the Archdiocese of Denver, jglderness park. Men, Women Equal Rights Still Bouncing bill bouncing back and forth this session, giving equal rights to men and women in Colorado, was given tentative approval by the Colorado House Thursday, The bill, in the form of a con! current resolution, winds up to be ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. The senate earlier this week threw this bill into confusion when it not only ratified the U.S.

Constitution, but lumped that with a similar bill doing the same the state. Dear Maverick: I am writing with the hope that some of your readers might be able to give me some information. I need the name and date involved on the grave on the former Lem Gammon Ranch, west of the town of Ramah, now of the property of the Ramah State Recreation Area. Also any other history pertaining to this would be appreciated. The original stone has been badly marred and we need this information in order to place a new marker on the grave.

W. D. Well, podnah, the Maverick shore asked around but was unable to get any information. yore letter in the hope that some of our readers will know and will write in. 4F 4F Dear Maverick: To the lady who asked about pre-school swimming.

The YMCA has a program for toddlers. I took my boy last summer at For this program the mothers have to accompany the children in the water. The program runs year around and the lady can get more information from the YMCA as to when the next class starts and get her ap(dication in. The also has an program fw children at least four years old (I think) and mothers do not have to go into the water with their children. S.

T. 4F 4F Dear Maverick: Thanks for your help in finding youth soccer coaches for us. We still need six men willing to volunteer a few hours a week helping to coach youngsters this summer. Anyone interested should call me tonight at 6SS-3917. Thanks.

D.H. Dear Maverick: I wouid like to work in a service station. But I have problem. only 16 years of age. Most auto mechanics needed these days are over 25 years of age.

I can do tune-ups and other easy jobs. taking Auto Mechanics in High School. What trying to say is if there is a service station manager that needs some little help around the shop, please give me a ring at 495-2020 and ask for Bruce. wUling to learn more and I want to become a good auto mechanic later fat life. Please give me a chance.

B. Dear Maverick; Our club would like to have this notice printed in your column. The members of the Mountain Four Wheel Drive would like to extend an invitation to any four-wheel drive vehicle owner interested in attending our club meetings and outings. We meet the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Colorado Springs Equipment, 136 Garden of the Gods Road.

For more information please call 596-3450. E. S. Alt Dear Maverick: Like so many of your other readers, we need your help in passing on some information. St.

Student Council and Junior Class will be holding a Jamboree Sale (combination Rummage Sale Gift and Bake Sale) in St. Gym on April 23. Anyone wishing to contribute to a worthy cause please bring rummage items, novelty articles and baked goods to the gym from Thursday April 20 to Saturday, April 2Z from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information or for people to pick up items, please call Kathy Wittry at 598-8749 or Kathy Hayes at 5H-27H..