Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 37

Tucson Public records1 1 Weather 12 Friday November 11 1994 Tucson Citizen CITY EDITOR JAMES WYCKOFF 573-4560 taMtm caps The ASA plan presented to the Board of Regents would have limited increases to a certain percent simplifying financial planning to win have agreed to an annual increase in tuition costs up to a certain cap such as percent a year If the three universities wanted to raise tuition rates higher they would have had to receive legislative binding for financial aid for those students who could not afford the increase needs to be some predictable and affordable way of setting tuition each said Paul Allvin spokesman for the associa- rrr-Hrri Tuccon-n Erncct Ccbst dies ct CO Tucsonan Ernest "Erni" Gibat a pioneering advertising executive and well-known artist has died of heart failure For a look at his life and creative work turn to Page 5E asked Northern Arizona University President Clara Lovett Lovett said it would leave administrations with the task of deciding hether to admit fewer students reduce programs or not pay the air conditioning bill Regents Andy Hurwitz and John Munger preferred to set a range of tuition increases such as 3 percent to 5 percent that the STUDENTS continued2E tion Students need to be able to plan ahead for financing their educations he added Committee members representing the Board of Regents and uni- versity administrations balked remembering bloody battles for funding with legislators who saw the universities as cash drains happens if the Legislature says thank you? Who is going to take care of the operating gap in running the By RHONDA BODF1ELD CAzan Pnoann Buaau PHOENIX University students were thwarted yesterday jn an effort to make tuition increases more predictable Their plans failed to make the final draft of a report by the Com mission on Student Costs and Financial Assistance a group formed to advise the Board of Regents on policy issues Under the proposal presented by the Arizona Students Association regents student leaders and university administrators would Kr A close call Police seeking AMPM robber Tucson police are asking for help in finding a man who robbed a convenience store last weekend About 10:45 pm Sunday the man walked into the AMPM 2200 Broadway and took money from an open cash register during a sales transaction The man who scooped the money out of the register with both hands ran from the store south on Plumer Avenue No weapon or vehicle was seen The man was described as Hispanic or black about 25 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds He has brown hair and a stocky build He was last seen wearing a white T-sliirt and blue sweat pants Anyone with information about the man is asked to call Detective Sylvia Belda at 791-4661 or 88-CRIME A $1000 reward is being offered for tips sent in on the 88-CRIME line that lead to the arrest and indictment of the Nighttime D-M flights to increase An extra hour a day this month needed to meet training requirements an official says By CHRISTINA VALDEZ Citizen Stall Writer Night-flight operations of A-10 aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will nearly double next week The 354th Fighter Squadron at D-M will extend its night-flying hours by one hour a day ending at 11:30 pm said Master Sgt Sam Haney a spokesman for the base The new hours start Monday and continue through the end of November he said The missions will be flown Mondays through Thursdays only Night-flying hours will similarly be expanded periodically through the spring of next year a base official said D-M usually conducts about 14 night-flying missions But for the rest of this month the fighter squadron will conduct 26 missions nightly to meet new training requirements Haney said Mark Mayer a base critic and community activist who has lived in the 3300 block of East 23rd Street for seven years said is just one more stick in the Mayer's home along with about 2100 other homes and Keen Elementary School is located within potential accident zone D-M has never respected the need for quiet hours he complained The increase in the number of flights may be temporary but Mayer said will disturb area residents There are definitely more flights going on than people would like to Haney said there would be no additional noise the residents been bothered before they be bothered now" need to extend the flying hours at the 354th Fighter Squadron is necessary to meet headquarters Air Combat Command night-flying requirements that have nearly doubled in order td ensure pilot nighttime proficiency and combat mission readiness" said Vice Commander Col James Montman of the 355th Wing Previously pilots of the A-10 combat unit were required to fly only 12 night missions but that will increase to about 20 per pilot he said No other aspect of the mission will be altered The requirement is unique to the 354th Fighter Squadron the only A-10 combat unit assigned to D-M The two other A-10 units here are training organizations and will not participate in the extended hours Montman said He said the squadron is taking advantage of the shorter daylight hours in addition to adding an extra hour of flying to meet training requirements CORRECTION LUCKY No one was seriously hurt in this two-vehicle South Campbell Avenue One car being looked at by of- accident last night on East Valencia Road just east of ficer Elsa Martinez was wrapped around a tree i 1 Tmcsom smokers decry tax A map on Wednesday's Page 4A incorrectly reported that the majority of voters in Yuma and Yavapai counties vot- ed for Eddie Basha in the gov3 emor's race The majority in fact went for Gov fife Symington Also Basha won six counties the secretary of state reported yesterday: Navajo Santa -Cruz Pinal Coconino Gila and Apache A chart in Wednesday's Citizen based on early returns incorrectly reported a majority of Navajo County voters chose Symington ers and then they attack us Alcohol has just as much effect on people as tobacco and when people drink they get on the highway and kill she said I like people having a free hand on $90 million They should have to show where every penny is Matthew Madonna executive vice president of the American Cancer Society Arizona Division said the measure has strict controls designating that revenues must be used to improve the health of the medically indigent through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Under the proposition 70 percent of TOBACCO continued8E probably be forced to quit because I be able to afford It says one By MARY BUSTAMANTE Cozen Stall Writer 1 Health consumer community and business leaders will meet in a week to determine how to divvy up an estimated $90 million in revenue from the voter-approved state tax on cigarettes Meanwhile smokers still reeling from passage of Proposition 200 are looking for economical ways to pay for their habit angry said Renee Ray a smoker for 45 years who was among several puffers waiting at a downtown bus stop probably be forced to quit because I be able to afford it The tobacco tax will add about 40 cents to the cost of every pack bringing the total to nearly $3 per pack The tax is expected to become effective Nov 28 when Gov Fife Symington issues proclamations that declare all voter-approved propositions state law Smoker Janet Mauney who also was waiting for a bus downtown said the cigarette tax complain about drunken driv ci th3 day In 1897 four miners staged a gun battle over mining daims near Prescott Two were killed and two wounded SATURDAY Libertarians view 1994 election with mixed emotions Volunteers work in hiking area A flood-damaged area of Sabino Canyon will get much-needed repairs this weekend Read details in tomorrow's Tucson Citizen EE Pima County Libertarian Party showing stronger than is largely attributed to the fact that the $30 billion anti-crime law which contains a ban on the manufacture and importation of certain assault-style weapons was an issue in the ate race but not in the gubernatorial contest Jon Kyi the GOP winner of the US Senate race though a critic of gun-control measures voted for the crime bill as a member of the US House Some gun-rights proponents saw vote as a betrayal and shifted to Grainger public said Buttrick had about 40000 people vote for me Tuesday If we can just get a small fraction of those people to register as Libertarians we will qualify for the ballot" In the two months before general election voter registration was cut off Libertarians were adding more than 100 people a week to their registration rolls A large number of those new Libertarians registered in Pima County In that two-month period registered Libertarians in Pima County increased from 1400 to 1700 said 'Peter Schmerl chairman of the Pima County is only county in which Libertarians are regarded as a permanent party The reason is that a Libertarian candidate for Pima County attorney Bob Bushkin received 20 percent of the vote two years ago Despite strong showings during statewide televised debates in which Buttrick articulately expressed the Libertarian philosophy on a variety of issues his candidacy did not take off Still Buttrick said he did succeed in introducing voters to Libertarian ideas "We reached more people than ever before and we quadrupled our By DAVID PITTMAN Citizen Political Writer Libertarian Party activists expressed a bittersweet reaction yesterday regarding this statewide general election results On one hand Scott Grainger the nominee for a US Senate seat pulled down 7 percent of the vote in finishing' third in a three-way race an all-time record nationally for a Libertarian running for the Senate The biggest disappointment for the Libertarians however was the failure of John Buttrick Libertari an gubernatorial nominee to pull down 5 percent of the vote Had Buttrick passed the 5 percent barrier it would have ensured ballot access for the candidates in statewide elections in 1996 Still party officials hope they can avoid having to collect signatures to qualify their candidates for the next ballot They can do that if they boost the number of voters registered with the party from about 8000 to about 14000 which would qualify the Libertarians as a permanent party in Arizona mz'32 Governor: won't back anti-immigrant bills 3E City suing contractors over CAP site leaks 4E Community leaders stand against KKK 9E Demos look ahead see ever harder rows to hoe 1 1E Ode to a Libertarian: Buttrick miss governor but it Fife turned the tables and Eddie was always on the Most political analysts had theorized that candidacy would steal votes from Symington -and benefit Basha That proved not to be the case doubt I pulled substantially more from one candidate or the said Buttrick help Eddie that I was there because I took as many whacks at him as I did at To borrow a phrase Arizonans will not have John Buttrick to kick around anymore think there is a strong possibility I will never do anything like this again unless I go completely he said regret running but I think see me out front ten to said Buttrick difficult to get your message out today without TV It is just one more barrier to a third-party Buttrick said he was not surprised by comeback victory or that Basha blew a commanding double-digit lead as measured by most opinion polls three weeks before the election campaign ran out of ideas said Buttrick was obvious that Eddie could generalize about his vision for the state but he offered few specifics And when he did get specific people like what he was saying He cam6 off as a Hubert Humphrey-style feelgood Democrat would have thought the big question in this campaign would have been record and whether or not he had been an effective they wanted to vote for me but they because if they did that son of a gun -you can fill in the blank would get Buttrick befieves he could have done better much better if he had the cash to buy television ads While Symington and Basha spent more than $2 million each on the race Buttrick spent just $25000 And while the other candidates were all over the tube during the final week of the campaign Buttrick was nowhere to be seen Unfortunately candidates are now pack- aged and sold like boxes of breakfast cereal and 10-second sound bites are far more critical than substantial policy addresses the days of the Lincoln-Douglas debates the candidates could get up on soap boes and talk about issues and people would lis- I will miss John Buttrick He was the candidate who pander to voters He was the candidate who articulately espoused a consistent phi- losophy He was the candidate who had no money He was the candidate who finished dead last If ever there was proof that the Libertarian Party is not ready for prime time it was the race for governor The Libertarians fielded Buttrick a Phoenix lawyer as their standard bearer and he did absolutely marvelously in debates with Gov Fife Symington who won re-election and Democratic challenger Eddie Basha if Buttrick were a Republican or A tribute honoring retiring US Sen Dennis DeConcini D-Ariz is scheduled for Sunday in Scottsdale The event which will be held at the Rawhide Pavilion 23023 Scottsdale Road will begin at 6 pm and will include a reception dinner and a live country music perfor- mance Among those slated to attend are former Gov Rose Mofford former US Sen Barry Goldwater and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell D-Maine Tickets are $25 and are available at the door Proceeds will be do- nated tp charity Political writer David PHtman'a column p-paara avary Friday In tha Tucaon Cttizan 573-4569 Democrat he might have won this election But Buttrick is a Libertarian and he got just 3 percent of the vote people were dissuaded from voting for me because they were convinced the election would be extremely Buttrick said I was campaigning at the State Fair literally hundreds of people came up to me and said that Cl.