Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 1

Tuesday October 17 1989 By DAVID PITTMAN Citizen Phoenix Bureau Mofford favors special legislative session special session on auto insurance reform that could be held before the next regular said Bartlett see this as a bipartisan Senate Bartlett said auto insurance reforms should be instituted at the earliest possible date we wait to the regular session it wrill take another 10 months until this gets he said think CAR contmued4A surers and creation of anti-fraud and consumer offices within the Arizona Department of Insurance Bartlett and De proposal addresses all of those concerns Both senators said the next step is to assess potential support for the legislation among lawmakers are putting out this proposal to see if it is a workable basis for a PHOENIX Two Tucson lawmakers are floating a trial balloon they hope will be the basis of a special session on auto insurance reform State Sens William De Long R-Tucson and David Bartlett D-Tuc-son have crafted legislation that would require prior approval of auto insurance rate increases and allow the director of the state Insurance Department to review already existing rates Already their efforts have received tentative support from Gov Rose Mofford now I'd have to say I am for said Mofford me a chance to see what kind of support there is and if this can be done in a bipartisan fashion and be more than happy to call one (a special Last month Mofford said any auto insurance legislation to be included in a special session would have to include provisions for prior approval of premium rate increases wider circulation of information regarding prices charged by auto in Deficit tri Channel 40 to go off air at midnight KPOL-TV Channel 40 will go off the air permanently just after midnight tonight a spokeswoman for the station confirmed today She said the 25 employees were told at 9 am today that the station would close permanently Only act of would change the decision to close the station she said Owner and station manager David Polan was not available for comment The independent station which went on the air Jan 1 1985 had been up for sale for at least two years The spokesman declined comment on whether negotiations for a sale had collapsed or what precipitated the decision to close Almost everyone in the local television business has said Tucson is oversaturated with TV stations The city has three major network affiliates (4 9 and 13) a PBS station (6) one independent station connected with the Fox network 1 1 two unaffiliated independents 1 8 and 40) and a new Spanish language station 1 4) which is part of the Tele-mundo network Tucson is rated the 81st an483rd largest TV market in the country by the two major ratings services Hop skip and dust Dow Jones drops 25 points The Associated Press tv 11 Stronger dollar widens deficit Here it was business as usual Most local stocks fall just a bit Market answers from UA expert NEW YORK Stocks retreated today following two of the wildest sessions on Wall Street since the October 1987 market crash The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was off 2521 at 26321 7 by 2 pm on Wall Street Earlier the average briefly dipped below 2600 depressed by futures-related computerized sell programs but bounced back up a bit when buy programs reappeared Declining issues maintained a wide lead over advances on the New York Stock Ex-chang of about 2 to 1 with 1002 down 517 up and 423 unchanged The Dow average had plummeted 19058 points on Friday and bounced back with an 8812-point gam yesterday leaving investors groping for stable ground The Commerce Department handed the market some bad news today with its report that the merchandise trade deficit rose nearly 31 percent in August to $1077 MARKET continued4A Smoking foes hail air travel vote banning light-ups on US routes The Associated Press Turnip was murder weapon police say LONDON Police say a 56-year-old man was fatally injured by a turnip hurled from a passing car and that there have been two dozen other instances of assault with fruits and vegetables At an inquest yesterday Detective Superintendent Graham Howard said the death of Leslie Merry was being investigated as a murder Merry suffered a punctured lung and broken rib when he was hit by a turnip in east London on July 14 In another incident in east London on April 19 Howard said a jogger was hit by a cabbage from a speeding car Compiled by Dan Sorenson and Mike Chesnick from staff and wire reports 'Airline passengers in America now can look forward to smoke-free travel' Rep Richard Durbin Author of measur WASHINGTON Smoking foes are proclaiming victory after House-Senate vote to ban smoking on all continental US airline routes and on many flights to and from Hawaii and Alaska The restrictions expected to be approved by the House and Senate before being sent to President Bush would cover practically all of the 16000 airline flights scheduled in the United States each day By the estimate of tobacco industry lobbyist Charlie Whitley the rules would allow smoking on only about 55 flights daily Lobbyist Jo Ellen Deutsch of the Association of Flight Attendants said she thought smoking would be permitted on fewer than 20 flights a day even a said 5 i i Nancy Hailpern lobbyist for the American Cancer Society one of many health groups that fought to expand current anti-smoking rules using the word compromise basically for the benefit of the other SMOKING continued2A STUBBORN SPOT With a tena- had to jump to reach the top of his cious splotch of dirt only inches out of window-cleaning chores at Peter Piper his reach Marcus Cotton 19 found he Pizza 4167 Oracle Road crisis in mental health care not bringing change Merrily spending money not easy to spend as much money as the federal government does each year Louis Rukeyser shows how done in Tucson Citizen Business By CARLA McCLAIN Citizen Staff Writer sumer watchdog group the Public Citizen Health Research Group Not only did Arizona rank 50th out of the states and the District of Columbia on providing services to the mentally ill it came in dead last in spending for such services and was described as in the whole effort by Torrey and his co-authors MENTAL continued2A Torrey the Washington DC psychiatrist who co-authored a national report that last year blasted neglect of the seriously mentally ill The report ranked the state 50th in the nation for its effort "There now seems to be a sense of crisis about the situation and that could lead to Torrey said "But all the interest is only words so far If you look at the actual services Arizona is still a strong contender for last place There have not been any real changes in Arizona since a year Torrey yesterday visited several mental health facilities in Pima County during this trip to Arizona as part of a tour of the states ranked iastin the 1988 report sponsored by the National Alliance for the Mentally 111 and the con cline of the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix and the pending loss of the chief psychiatrist at Kino Community Hospital threaten to plummet the state into even deeper disgrace in the future the expert warned most promising change I have seen in Arizona is an increased awareness that care for these people is very deficient a serious said Dr Fuller A of about the plight of the seriously mentally ill is growing in Arizona but no action has been taken to erase the last-place rating in services for this population a national expert said in Tucson yesterday Two major problems in mental health care the continuing de 1 k- A Pink polka dot clouds With lemon lime rain: I wish it were true But too hot again Ima Dreamer Sunny and warmer than normal High near 90 today in the mid 80s tomorrow Low tonight in the mid-50s Yesterday's high 88 Overnight low 56 Complete weather 8C Rain postpones launch of shuttle Tha Associated Press Galileo probe the countdown had advanced smoothly to a point nine minutes before the launch time Showers moved into an area 20 miles offshore that Atlantis would have to pass through if an engine were lost shortly after liftoff and the astronauts had to attempt an emergency landing on a 15000-foot runway near the launch pad NASA had only a 26-minute period ending at 1:23 pm (10:23 am Tucson time) during which Earth and Jupiter were in proper SHUTTLE contmued2A CAPE CANAVERAL Fla NASA today scrubbed the launch of Atlantis and its Jupiter-bound Galileo probe because of rain Space agency managers said they would meet later in the day to consider another attempt tomorrow appears the local weather will not cooperate so going to have to launch director Bob Sieck told the astronauts With about 200 armed security guards on alert for anti-nuclear trespassers protesting against launch of the plutonium-powered Associated Pres Security guards and a fence stood between anti-nuclear protesters and the space shuttle 7.