Arizona Republic (Newspaper) - February 12, 1969, Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix weather Cooler today with gusty afternoon winds and chance of intermittent High today low Yester days high low Humidity high low Page 79th 272 THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC TELEPHONE 2718000 February 1969 Four 84 Pages Todays chuckle Sign outside an auto repair shop May we have the next please c Ten Cents Phoenix Open begins The Phoenix Open golf tournament opens today with the attraction at Arizona Coun try Club under possibly rainy The weatherman predicted show ers in the Valley later even though it was a balmy 72 degrees here Canadian pro George Knudson is on hand to defend the title he won last along with such other past winners as Julius Dud ley Wysong Rod Gene Littler and Ken Television personalities Dean Martin and Andy Williams top the celebrity list for todays First round of the tournament proper is on tap for to morrow at the Thomas Page University budgets embattle legislature Hijacked jets return speeded Associated Press WASHINGTON Cuba has agreed to allow hijacked planes to return to the United States with their passengers the State Department announced The new Havana policy is a welcome help to unwillingly detoured air travelers but still provides no cure to the mounting wave of press officer Robert McCloskey the Cubans have permitted air crews to fly their hijacked craft home from but after passengers Latest Page 12 were transferred about 90 miles to From there the passengers were flown back to Miami often not until the following day aboard propeller Havana officials had contended takeoff from their airports runway is unsafe for the huge loaded jet pilots disputed this almost unanimously and Washington pressed the matter through the Swiss embassy which represents interests in McCloskey reported the Castro regime now says it is willing to on a the direct return of hi jacked planes with passengers aboard provided the govern the airlines and the pilot of each plane will assume responsibility for the safety of the We welcome this more expeditious and more convenient method of returning passengers on the same the State Department spokesman McCloskey spoke to newsmen shortly after the without put their new policy into practice with an Eastern Air Lines DCS hijacked The San plane flew on to its stateside destination with its 109 passengers only hours after an unscheduled Havana landing was forced by a That was the 14th hijacking of a airliner this and a Venezuelan craft was hijacked to Cuba McCloskey said he did not know what arrangements might have been AP Continued On Page 4 EASY DOES wouldbe pas senger stretches out in Kennedy International Airport waiting room in New York as he waits for work crews to clear away snow from Sundays First plane final ly took off yesterday Little girl in background watches Assessor plugs tax law loophole to recover funds By ALBERT JL SITTER County Assessor Kenneth Kunes said yesterday he is plugging a tax loop hole which could cost the county at least this year in unpaid revenue from personal business The Kunes was created last 5 when a statewide referendum repealed the tax on home owners personal he both domestic and commercial personal property was as sessed on an arbitrary basis of 10 per cent of the assessment of an owners land and NOT AFFECTED by the November referendum was business personal which includes the furnishings of leased living According to the formula devised as part of the statewide property tion program which went into effect this a wide range of personal property owned by commercial enterprises will be assessed at 25 per cent of full cash The personal business property tax generally went uncollected this year on the 25 per cent basis because of the confusion created by the new tax pro gram and the lack of manpower in the assessors office to implement an over haul of the said who as office on To obtain a record of existing corn Continued On Page 14 Scottsdale water refunds By PAUL SCHATT The city agreed yesterday to refund up to in deposits paid to the city by Scottsdale property owners who receive Phoenix water Mayor Graham and Scottsdale Mayor Bud in a joint praised the refund plan and urged in creased efforts to bring about future for mation of a Metropolitan Water The two mayors also voiced belief that Scottsdale eventually will purchase the water facilities in Scotts dale in order to give residents there low er Scottsdale has sought over Phoenix intermittent but strong pro since While the deposit return agreement merely puts Phoenix policy on a par with that of other the accord was the first attained in the citys long simmering water dispute with Graham said the water which amounts to for residents and three times the largest monthly for com would no longer be charg ed to residential and commercial prop erty owners who have good payment The Phoenix City Council has inform ally approved the Graham in the spirit of treating the people as fairly as we The city requires no deposit from prop erty owners living within but requires a deposit from renters with in the city Phoenix serves residential and commercial users in Scottsdale and holds deposits of The who would receive deposit refunds are property owners the balance are who will be required to maintain the de Both Graham and city water officials said the when approved by the City will be in the form of credits toward the payment of water bills and not the sending of refund Dario city water superintend said the change will put the city more in line with deposit policies of other He said both Arizona pub lic Service and the Salt River Proj Continued On Page 20 Government again wiretapping in fight on organized crime WASHINGTON For the first time in 3V2 the government is using wire taps in cases not involving the national John Mitchell has au an undisclosed number of taps in the field of organized crime since taking office Under the Justice Depart ment also is planning to reorganize the strikeforce approach to uncovering organized It may establish a sep Washington Post Service arate division of the department for that The wiretapping and new ideas on combatting organized crime were made known to the press yesterday under rig id ground rules prohibiting identification of the Not since June when former President Lyndon Johnson issued a directive to investigatory has the government been permitted to wire Continued On Page 4 Tet attack prelude foreseen in Viet Harelips Associated Press SAIGON Fighting flared on two sides of Saigon about midnight heightening speculation that enemy forces may be maneuvering for an attack during the Tet lunar new year Communist gunners also shelled a provincial capital in the Mekong Delta and hit at least two South Vietnamese military In other the battleship New Jersey moved back on the blasting enemy bunkers on the coast below Da Nang Signs of increasing enemy movement have been reported in recent days and there has been an upswing in light shellings and ground No sustained fighting has oc curred for months in the Vietnam but there have been recurring predictions that the Communist command may try to pull off some spectacular It was during the lunar new year holiday last year that they launched their biggest drive of the Tet this year is next One of the fights just outside Saigon began an hour before midnight at a major bridge on National Highway where the 199th Light Infantry Brigade has an artillery support It is only eight miles southwest of the Continued On Page 2 DEMANDS Saigon negotiators to reject latest demands for Viet Page JURY COMPLETE Jury selection for the trial of Sirhan Bishara charged with murder of Robert is Page CLASS scatter stu dent Page DEMO HASSLE McCarthyites say Demo reform plans deprive Minnesotan of fair representation in Page INOUT SURGERY Two Phoenix doctors plan private facility where mi nor surgery can be performed on out patient Page Legislative highlights Drunk driving changed in Page New abortion effort in both Page Judge says go slow en juvenile re Page Compulsory insurance Page United Press International NEW YORK The big city inched toward normalcy yesterday in the snowy wake of the seasons toughest storm which took more than 100 lives in the Northeast and touched off heated contro over whos to blame for the para While snow removal crews worked around the clock to clear arteries as the New York and New England and the Van Wyck Express way on Long Island of stalled weathermen in the Boston area predict ed another deaths climbed to 107 60 in New making it the dead liest storm there since the blizzard of 1888 37 in New york 11 in New Jersey and 2 in Three New York ers bound for a Miami vacation died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their stalled car at Kennedy mainly from were in Some 129 mail carriers suf On Page 4 Senator calls college aides irresponsible By DON BOLLES university officials were de scribed as selfish and irresponsible by a state senator but they fought back hard in defense of their pro posed Ray contin ued his attacks on the universities commenting I think the time has come for the Board of Regents and the presidents of our universities to forget about our uni as being the sacred cows of the HE SAID OTHER vital needs of the state are being neglected while gel what they ask for year aft er But Myron regents budget said the university budgets are very realistic and would help lift the Arizona schools from the lower 25 per cent of faculty salary The exchanges came during five hours of House and Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on Arizona State proposed budget for the fis cal year starting July ASU has asked for from general tax funds to operate the Tempe school for students next The current budget of funds is ASU also collects another mil lion from student fees and other sources and gets about million in federal IN ASU has asked for million in capital outlay funds to be used to start its Litchfield Park cam pus and buy hind and build new facili ties at Williams budget director recom mended million for operations and only million for construction and land told newsmen he will propose to the committee that ASU and the two other state universities get the amount recommended for operations but nothing for President Homer Durham and the regents fared better in the House com than in the although at one point George I think were getting more excuses for spending than we are getting The Senate hearing was a classic feud between taking the long Continued On Page 14 Todays prayer Our whose lordship is uni help us grow from selfish indi and narrow nationalism to the realistic concept of ourselves as global As we begin to see our prob lems and needs as help us love our Auto warranties FTC Chairman Dixon charges United Press International WASHINGTON The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission accused automobile manufacturers yesterday of using warranties more as a sales gim mick than a guarantee of service and announced that We certainly are going to do something about Ending eight days of hearings into al abuses of new car Paul Rand the said the commission should have responded sooner to car owners complaints but had ample power to correct the situa tion and would now The public is entitled to a car free of Dixon indicated the FTC might pro pose federal regulations to improve car but said no decision would be announced until the hearing record is closed next The hearings were sparked by a com mission staff report of 18 which accused automakers of shoddy assembly line emphasizing sales over serv ice and refusing to pay dealers enough for proper warranty maintenance Witnesses for General Motors urged the FTC to reject the staff report as misleading and based on inadequate They said complaints about warranties were dwindling in The FTC staff noted it had received more than letters of complaint from car Other witnesses charged that dealers cither made excuses for refusing war rarity jobs or assigned poorly skilled mechanics to perform They also said manufacturers failed to give ade quate publicity to items exempted from warranty
