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Land Use Amendment Is Reported Out Monday COLORADO SPRINOS DENVER The Colorado Senate State Affairs Committee Monday reported out for floor action a bill that would amend last land use legislation dealing with subdivision regulations of land outside incorporated areas. The amendment would exempt all acquisitions which could be obtained by court order under the laws of eminent domain. Reason for the bill, said sponsors, is that because of the wording of the present law any division of land into separate in- Chuck Vernon of Mountain Bell, an endorser of the bill, said the lack of uniformity makes it impossible for any utility, the highway department or others operating within more than one county to effectively administer the acquisition of rights or other interests in land. Vernon said the proposed amendment would do no harm to the underlying philosophy of last land use legislation because the utility company, highway department and others with the power of eminent domain are not traditionally in- Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1973 Gazette Telegraph l-B terests which cover less than in the development of acres requires compliance with but are usually reac- the subdivision regulations to previous developments though such division is not the traditional subdivision of land.

This means that the acquisition of a right of way for utility or roadway purposes where not developed, other than construction of a water or sewer line or electrical or communication Bishop Mark L. Prophet who or a roadway would require pved at 1 st and Broadmoor Av- compiiance with the subdivision enue died Monday in a iocal Education in El Paso County Labeled State School Officials Tell Board Punch-Card Voting May Become Reality I DENVER Punch card jtronic voting could become The compactness of the reality under a bill given boxes, the fact they are easy to liminary approval by the Colo- store, me out of the already sanctioned by the local governing bodies. Mark L. Prophet Dies; Rites Friday regulations even though no development of the land in the traditional sense would occur. It would seem, supporters of the bill said, that the present law allows the county commissioners to exempt these types of transactions from the operation of the subdivision regulation statutes.

But the sponsors said there has been no uniformity in exempting these types of transactions and even if the commissioners would uniformly pass regulations exempting them, the regulations could be amended from time to time. hospital. Memorial City Parking Commission Recommended MARK L. PROPHET Recommendations for formation of a city parking commission were dropped in the lap of City Manager George Fellows Monday during an informal conducted at 3 p.m. Friday meeting of city council.

The recommendation to in stitute a parking commission to follow. By MOLLY R. PARRISH Gazette Telegraph Staff Writer Proposed cutbacks in federal funds and tremendous and seemingly insolvable growth problems are severely hurting school districts in El Paso County, the Colorado State Board of Education was told Monday. Meeting at the Antlers Plaza Hotel, the board heard a panel of local school administrators tell of the problems they have in one of the fastest growing areas of the state. Dean Fleischauer, superintendent of Fountain-Ft.

Carson School District 8 told the board his district faces problems with the possible reduction of federal funds and the low tax base. He said, however, that he is confident that Congress will reinstate funds under the federal impact law and that the state legislature will provide necessary funding. A major problem facing District 8 he said, is school construction. Ft. Carson plans to build an additional 1,250 housing units on post, he said, and the school district needs to build more schools to take care of the expected pupil population growth.

He said that if President Nixon goes through with his plan to cut back federal funds under the federal impact laws bases (dealing with funds to school with a high degree of at I federal employes and federal in- The Summit Lighthouse, whiclrStallations). District 8 will be founded in Broadmoor. Cre-i severely affected since only 15 per cent of the pupil population I ability to construct he said. I William Callahan, superinten- jdent of Cheyenne Mountain District 12, agreed with Bricker that school district reorganization is not the answer to local school financial problems. He said he thought the matter of aid to federally impacted area such as Fountain-Ft.

Carson is of a federal problem than a county He said he sympathized with school districts with lower assessed valuations but district like to spend money for school buildings at Ft. Bob Poole, superintendent of Widefield School District 3, said his district has an assessed valuation of only $3,500 per rado Senate Monday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ray Kogovsek, D-Pueblo, is county but the strictly optional for clerks and recorders, the federal impact law. District counties, like 3 has 3,747 federal impact Springs and dents and all of them live indicated the new system to The assistant superintendent of Colorado Springs School Dis- doubtful said McCormick.

the committee, which was harsh to the bill at the beginning, was impressed with the make-sense explanations of Sen. 4 Denver, Pueblo like to supple- trict 11, Calvin Frazier, that District 11 is concerned with Public Law 874 (the federal impact law slated to be cut) and hopes that a new state finance plan will take (the cut) into He said his biggest concern with the financial problems is that solution seems to be in said Kogovsek said the bill was designed to provide clerks and recorders with a third option as a voting system to go with the two now used, those being voting machines and paper ballot. El Paso County, he said, has already indicated that it needs 10 0 more voting machines, the are large all know what the prob- to operate, and lems are. We go around in a and expensive might opt for the new system as a supple- circle verbalizing the problems, I ment to what got now. but no one says how to go about! The punch card system fea- solving the He said that education in the county is a state and the state must see to it we identify and arrive pupil (as compared to $13,000 per pupil in District 12), of solutions.

This does not mean the lowest in the the state is taking autono- He said his district will be my away from the local by cuts in Combining Districts Said One Solution act as an advisory committee to Prophet was born not federally council on parking affairs, 24. 1918, in Chippewa School district reorganization is one solution to the problems of rapid growth and the low tax of in El Paso County, Donald Woodington, Colorado In the missioner of Education, said he here Monday. Dr. Woodington spoke at a i brief press conference following tures a steel attache type steel box that unfolds into an individual voting booth. The vote cast is electronically fed onto the punch cards and then, in turn, programed into the computers at the various counties.

Denver, El Paso County and Pueblo, Kogovsek said, all re- I ported long delays in the last that took place during the Nov. 7 general elections. large counties like he said, their problems by pointing out they have enough machines to handle the I He also pointed out that the problem of President Shoup Voting Machines proposed cutbacks in aid to fed -1 are bulky, weighing 800 pounds 0 it Dear Maverick, You have helped so many people, I hope yon can help us. My friend and I think fair that girls and boys between the ages 12 and 14 get jobs if they are responsible enongh to get to that job on time, work hard and especially if they are willing to devote their time and effort to that certain job. Sometimes kids will need money for something special like clothes, bikes, animals but they have enough money, so then they start going from door to door asking if someone would like their lawn mowed or something, and that gets pretty hard.

eally impacted areas. have to be stored at ex- At Ft. Carson, he said, tre- pense to the counties. Moving mendous amount of property is cost the counties $30 exempt from thereby adding to the or three-expenses, he said. came about as the result of a Wis.

He founded The Summit recently completed parking Lighthouse, an international restudy by Richard D. Rich Co. hgious movement, in 1958 in The study was commissioned by D.C. With an ex- the city to determine the park- Pending membership throughout ing in the downtown area ihis country and the world he and the placement of a pro- decided move the headquar- pcsed parking structure. Fellows is to study ways in which to implement the com- mis.sion.

With Reservation ters to Colorado Sprngs in 1966. In 1970 he opened a center units. Santa Barbara, Calif. He was a Other local world traveler and lecturer on philosophy and religion. In 1972 he and his wife, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, lectured throughout the United States, including the Hawaiian Islands.

They also conducted a four-day conference at the University of Accra in Ghana, West Africa. Injun Woody which was attended by students, heads of state and people from The Republican orbit has gone gii walks of life. Their speeches to a lot of trouble, trying to to the Ghanaian people made the labor group of AFL CIO. page headlines Now they are about to fling and Mrs. Prophet and their gams in this direction out thgjp children in 1970 made a the window by supporting to India, where they Equal Rights Amendment with the Dalai Lama and members of the Indian govern- Mrs.

Catherine East is an including Indira Gandhi, ccutive secretary of the Advis- couple also have traveled ory Council on the status of Wo- lectured throughout Europe men. She gets a government the British Isles. Together lary of $24,250, plus travel ex- they authored the book. penses, to run around the the Highest a 500- Of those pupils from families who work on post but live off post, (the first group to be denied more funding under the Nixon plan) 50 per cent of these live in mobile homes. He urged the state board of education to put more pressure on the legislature to tax mobile country, urging support for the Equal Rights bit.

Her agency also has been sending out large quantities of pro-ERA pamphlets, which are printed and mailed at the expense of the taxpayer. Also, presidential counselor Anne Armstrong is busy working on the long-distance wires to states where the measure is in trouble. Mrs. Armstrong will soon hit the road to mobolize support in state legislatures. The amendment, which has been approved by 26 of the 38 states needed for ratification, has run into rough sailing as opposition has mounted.

A number of organizations have sprung up called Stop ERA. Far from securing equality for women, its opponents claim, the Equal Rights Amendment would deprive women of many protections. For instance: Most hard-won protective labor legislation would be nullified; Husbands and fathers no longer be held primarily responsible for support of their families. Women would become equally subject to military service, (get out the army boots); Seduction and statutory rape laws could be outlawed on grounds that such laws are directed only against men (How about that?) page work on the teachings of Christ. Christianity and other world religions, which was published last year.

Under their direction, The Summit Lighthouse has published weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications, including taped recordings of their lectures which are distributed to members throughout the world. Mr. and Mrs. Prophet in the spring of 1972, opened the Four Winds Organic Center, a health food store and restaurant, at 108 S. Teion St.

He was cosponsor and founder of Montessori International, a private school for children from preschool through ninth grade which now has an enrollment of 80 students. He served in the United States Air Force during World War II. Surviving are his widow and four children. Sean Christopher, Brin Lynn, Moira Ellen and Tatiana Marie of Colorado Springs. administrators echoed concerns.

Howard Dunning, superintendent in Air Academy School District 20, said, biggest problem is the cutback in federal hope the (school) finance bill to come out of the legisla- will supplement those funds because we have the tax base to do Wayne Bricker, superintendent of Harrison School District 2 said that alone is a problem without easy He said that is hitting El Paso County at a time when our society is undergoing terrific changes. We are trying to sophisticate our operations to meet the societal changes of He urged a central school planning operation to assist in meeting the problems of growth. think reorganization of school districts is the Bricker said. we reorganize, we are still going to need the same number and the same type of buildings. is no inequality in the state greater than school dis- a briefing at Ft.

Carson and a tour of the area by military helicopters with the state board of education. Local communities, Woodington said to look at the current boundaries for school El Paso County now has 15 school districts, more than any other county in the state. Reorganization would entail combining some or all of the school districts into larger districts. The subject of reorganization was raised at Ft. Carson briefing by Brig.

Gen. Paul Gorman, deputy post commander, on the problems of school districts which surround the mountain post. Gorman suggested to the board that the boundaries of the district have little relevance to next two fr punch card he i 1 said, compact and will solve Nixon.rbXt rSfn Public Law 874 (the federal impact Much Talk Little Action are having right now. are just a bit larger than cases. They are no faster than the regular voting machines, but the time savings factor comes into play at the end of a voting day.

With the present voting machines judges must get the voting tallies off machines and then process onto punch cards. Those cards then have to be fed into the computers. The system that we are advocating eliminates The sort of job my friend and I are lookhig for is working in a stable or kennel, or just working with animals. If there any jobs of that sort available, we would like a job with kids between tbe ages of any month to five years old. We are responsible with little children.

Call Cindy at 633-8028 or Stephanie at 634-2247. C. and S. Dear Maverick, I was quite pleased with the response to a recent request of mine and I hope that I can obtain some help in this matter. If anyone happens to have a drafting machine or equipment they wish to dispose of, I would greatly appreciate hearing from them.

Please call 392-3653. W.T.H. I Dear Maverick: Do you know of anyone that could get a swarm of honey bees out of our attic? They could keep tbe bees if they wanted. Or does anyone know what we could use to kill them? We appreciate your column very much and are hoping for an answer to this problem. Phone 749-2381 if you can help us.

M.J.W. PEYTON, COLO. DENVER The Colorado that time lag and we figure that House talked a lot and did very this system can save two hours little Monday. a voting After debating one bill for Sen. William Garnsey, R- Action delayed until 3 14 on a proposal to the problem of growth capitalization rate of area and that reorganization of school districts might be the an- about 90 minutes the house fi- oppressed much of the nally laid it over.

And in other opposition. He read from copies action, the house first approved newspapers other parts of one bill, then in a parlia- country where the electromc mentary move killed it. system put into effect. The newspapers pointed out that in Detroit the punch card system was a total failure. He swer.

Maj. Gen. James F. Hamlet, Ft. Carson commander, said he felt sure that population around the mountain post would continue to grow; however, he added that Ft.

Carson was not officially endorsing a specific solution to the growth problems. would help the situation. There is no question about Woodington said. But he added that it is to the to decide whether to reorganize its school (the Colorado Department of Education) are not! here to tell you why, or when or that you should He said that in the future he expects El Paso County legislators to address the state board of education and state board will be able to give some kind of indication as to what has to be done to encourage school district Woodington pointed out that El Paso County also faces the agricultural land from nine the same reports from Angeles and from St. Louis.

He said the punch cards left too Burglars Ransack Local Home Monday Burglars ransacked a house at 1520 Culebra St. between 8:30 a.m. and noon Monday, stealing items values at $1,385. The owner, Betty M. Dyatt, said the thieves stole a dicta- cassette.

13 per cent. It is sponsored by Rep. Carl Gustafson, R-Dqnver. State Rep. Richard Lamm, D- Denver, tried unsuccessfully send the Gustafson bill to house education committee because of the impact he said it had on property taxes and school financing.

Gustafson said the new capi- ization rates gives a taxable rate of about seven per cent for farmers and ranchers. bill should go to said Rep. Bob Kirscht, D- opportunities for illegal- AIl it takes to void one of the he said, to punch one of the holes Kogovsek said the newspaper reports Garnsey read were the same ones he read two years ago when an identical bill to this one emerged. Kogovsek said that bill passed the senate, but then was allowed to languish without action by the house. Pueblo, we will know the! ti i dollar Kogovsek told Sen.

Hank He presented some figures of the Seems kind of silly for WhUe House to now be trying to.P 3 errvbrace this meesure, just a when they seem to made; coveted headway with big and sa.d he could bor. Palmer Syndlcale) find no sign of forced entry into ithe house. Drivers Needed For Meals on Wheels Route The Meals On Wheels program, a hot meal delivered to the home program administered by Silver Key Senior Services, had announced a need for five volunteer drivers. A heavy load suddenly occurring on the Medallion Apartments route has created the current need, according to Millicent Goetzmann, executive director for Silver Key. She explained that the route would involve delivery of seven meals which are to be picked up at 11:30 a.m.

at Medallion East on Union Street and delivered at Medallion West on Kiowa Street. The route is three pansion program would be car- miles long and should take no ried out in a three-phase project more than 45 minutes to handle. and could be financed with rev- The short route would make from the peak toll possible for a working person to within five years. $1.5 Million Summit House Expansion Asked Plans were announced Monday for a $1.5 million expansion of the Summit House on Pikes Peak, but city council failed to authorize the proposal for the moment. Harold Heyse said the ex his own: the current capitalization rate gives a taxable valuation of $344 million on agricultural land; the bill being considered would mean a reduction to $258 million, taxed at three per cent less.

He said homeowners would have to make up the difference. Rep. Don Friedman, R-Denver said the bill was a tax shift not a property tax reduction bill. Later the representatives passed, then killed a bill by Rep. Roy Wells, D-Cortez, to give arrest powers to state liquor control inspectors.

He said the measure was needed because of emergency situations that come up in rural areas where sometimes the sheriff is unable to respond immediately. State Rep. Jerry Kopel, D- Denver, amended the bill to stiplate that inspectors could not carry firearms. Wells later moved to amend the committee of the whole report to show that the Kopel change handle the assignment during ai Architect Carlisle Guy noon hour, she explained. preliminary plans of The Meals on Wheels proposal during the infor- phone number is 635-7577.

council sessiwi. Carter Reappointment Announced Monday DENVER The eappoint- ment of Mrs. Marian Carter of Colorado Springs as public trustee for El Paso County was announced Monday by the office. The appointment will now go gate! failed, but that cost him support to the state affairs of the Democrats. They helped committee and then to the floor punch cards make it more difficult to cheat, not And he told Garnsey that the same areas for illegality or mishaps occur with the voting machines and the paper ballots.

El Paso County Republican Sen. Harold McCormick said he had had some concerns over the security aspect of the system until a committee amendment was adopted, calling for two members of the Democratic and Republican parties to hand- carry the voting boxes back to the election centers. He having a political parties carry the boxes back would bi- -k ir ir Dear Mavenck, Since moving here from ont of state we have really enjoyed reading column in the paper each day. the highlight of taking the paper. I am looking for someone who sells Artex tube paints in or near the Vista Grande area.

1 would also like to take some instruction classes with the tube paints if anyone has a group set up or wouid iike to get one started. My phone number Is 598-3150. Thank you and pleale keep up the good work. You make my day a little brighter. F.H.

Dear Maverick: Please print this because it concerns a sweet puppy about two months old. My found it in their back yard and it leave so they took it in. But their other dogs take to it, so she asked me to keep it until we can find the owner. It Is too small to have wandered far, so if anyone in tbe area of the 1500 block of Norwood in Stratton Meadows has lost such la puppy, please call 576-1756 and teU us the color and sex. MRS.

M. Dear Maverick: Feb. 15 I lost a round open work silver pin with flowers and three pearls in the center. 1 was downtown near the First National Bank, Whetstone Shoe Store and the parking lot in back of I am offering a reward for my pin as it has great sentimental value for me. Please call 635-9480 with any information.

MRS. B.T. Dear Maverick: People never seem to have too many kind words for tbe Colorado Springs Police Department. like to put in a few right now. The other evening, I veiy foolishly left my car key in my ignition.

It was too late to call anyone so I called the Police Department to see what suggestions they had. A very nice lieutenant said he would send around a patrol the house vote, which later consideration, taken to show that the bill! Mrs. Carter was reappointed failed. This was done on a par-jfor a term beginning March 21 i liamentary move. and expiring March 20, 1975.

car, which arrived in just a few minutes. This officer, Officer Crank, was so helpful and so pleasant. He spent about a Half hour trying to get the car open, and he eventually did. I that tbe Police Department did such things and it warm- judgrfromeach of the wanted other people to know this. Thank you.

MRS. A.P. Dear Maverick: Feb. 19 I found a pair of eye glasses on the corner of Colorado Avenue and Tejon. The frame is light green and I would like the owner to contact me at the Deaf and Blind School to claim them.

A.W. For any of you folks who might have tried to contact Mrs. Z. who wanted hanks of horse hair, the cwrect address is 112 North 13th Street. We apologize for the inconvenient our mistake in the address printed in column might have caused.

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