Casa Grande Dispatch (Newspaper) - February 12, 1976, Casa Grande, Arizona Final Countys Doily Newspaper CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85222 THURSDAY VOL LXI NUMBER 30 Preliminary plans for Casa Grande Union High Schools technical building won board of education approval Wednesday night freeing the architect to prepare final plans and specifications The board Casa Grande Town Hall resolutions from the 1975 session to the High School approved several travel requests and granted an extra duty contract for an archery Bye Plays GLORIA RASPUTIN played by Sharie CUne presents her as she applies for secretarial work to Albert Peterson Kris Sable In the musical production of Bye Bye Birdie tonight in the high school From Arizona auditorium at 8 play which will be held Friday and Saturday also spoof on the cult worship of Elvis Presley In the days before he entered the service For story and more pictures see page 5 of todays Dispatch Stuff Photo plans for the building to be built at McMurray Boulevard and Casa Grande Avenue had been reviewed thoroughly in a two hour work session last week pressed tor second reading and adoption at the Wednesday meeting architect Bud Johns estimated that the building should be ready for use in approximately IB months The tentative timetable Johns said wouW in volve three months for preparation plans and specifications another month for contractors to Separe their bids and a contract to be awarded and approximately M months construction time from the date of groundbreaking Kate Kenyon a member of the Citizens Ad Hoc the technical building represented the committee at the Wednesday night and asked two academic needs Johns said this area was added when it appeared there would be a lunch scheduling problem He said it was not a cafeteria but a small serving area where food could be brought in from the cafeteria or snacks could be prepared Mrs Kenvon said she had understood scheduling would be in morning and afternoon groups and that lunch facilities would not be needed Alex N Nader district superintendent said adding the lunch room would alleviate a problem at s she had heard hat some programs originally planned building would assured her that all the technical and vocational programs originally planned for the building will be housed there We havent added any or taken any away from the original Johns said The architect offered to make copies of the preliminary plans for ad hoc committee members The review of Town Hall resolutions affecting the high school brought forth the following A master plan Nader said the Tempe firm which presented a preliminary master plan report to the board recently is now preparing a bin ding of the plan which will be available soon in various maps and drawings Board members said they need more opportunity for board input into the plan and questioned Sen Architect Page 12 d there was no food service area to the original plans for the building and asked when this was added and if it took anything away from TUCSON AP The State Transportation Department is taking steps to avoid accidents on highways between here and Phoenix Spokesman Derry Eaton said Wednesday that new warning signs will be erected along 40 miles of Interstate 10 by April that will flash dust warnings to motorists Currently signs flash warnings only in the immediate area at a dust storm Other steps include a study expected to be approved Friday by the Transportation Board will contract with one of me three state universities to study dust storms In addition he said land owners and n the area will be asked to contour some land plant it with various shrubs and allow spraying with chemicals were killed in a 14car p eup on the and nine died in a 20vehicle in 1971 Hearst Harris Confusion Rumors Judge Rules Jury May Hear Boasts of Robbery j F fo Aid to Earthquake Area Associated Press Writer IX and rumor hampered efforts of to aid ear Guatemalans today Mrs Richard Simis enlisted the aid of Ninety Nines an international organization of women pilots and Delta Airlines to transport relief supplies She said stores from several Arizona towns donated truckloads of food and clothing Wednesday Were taking everything thats boxed she said Were using cash donations to buy plaster to powdered milk disposable diapers and baby A ton of Arizona donations was flown to New Orleans Tuesday and transferred to Airlines for shipment to Guatemala Mrs Sums and Guatemalan officials Guatemala tells us theyve got aU the food they seed and keep all foreigners out A member in New Orleans Edie Brannon used a moving van to transfer the goods some of which she said had to wait for available space However Mrs Brannon said agreed Wednesday night to schedule an extra flight for the donations At the same time Jeff Markwart member of the board of directors of a Phoenix travel club attempted to arrange a flight of volunteer doctors to Guatemala but was turned back by said a volunteer tethered supplies were taken Orleans only to be stockpiled while awaiting shipment by boat Mrs Simis said The only things sitting are the ones shipped by land All our goods are going by Delta Airlines and are being shipped to Guatemala City by Airlines We have no confirmation of the goods reaching Guatemala But they left New via and the destination is Guatemala comments reported in a Wed afternoon newspaper here caused a flurry of telephone calls by prospective donors questioning whether their gifts would get to the Guatemalans Mrs Simis And there were rumors that supplies were being looted The Guatemalan embassy in Sun Francisco also says the Red Cross is meeting the planes and rumors of looting are Mrs Simis said Rudy Ibarra a Guatemalan volunteer assisting in the San Francisco consulate confirmed that no Arizona doctors are needed LOS ANGELES AP The judge in the trial of Army members William and Emily Harris has delayed the case another month and a defense attorney says a joint trial with Patricia Hearst is looking Superior Court Judge Mark continued to March 15 the Harrises trial counts of kidnap robbery and assault was grant ed Wednesday to allow the presentation of several defense motions defense asked If he thought his clients would be tried with Miss Hearst said Were definitely heading toward that Its looking more probable The prosecution also seems to be agreeable to a joint trial with Miss Hearst Deputy Dist Atty Samuel Mayerson told Brandler We are quite amenable to making thia trial available to a joint proceeding with Miss The Harrises asked last week for the delay so they could be tried with Miss Hearst who is currently on trial on federal bank robbery charges in San Francisco Brandler did not rule on the request Immediately saying he would give the matter some further a telephone call to District Court Judge Oliver Carter presiding judge In the Hearst trial Brandler was told that the Hearst trial would last about a month and that Miss Hearst would be available at that time If Carters calculations are correct Miss Hearst in Los Angeles by midMarch in time to be tried with the Harrises But Miss lawyer F Lee Bailey has said hes opposed to the joint trial of his client and the Harrises Thats the Isst thing wed want Bailey Awhile the jury in Miss trial will hear her taped voice boast that she took part ma bank robbery and then probably hear her m person dramatic story of being forced defense lost a battle Wednesday to prevent the playing of a taped communique in which tiie newspaper heiress using her underground name said she willingly joined her jurist kidnapers in the April 15 1974 robbery with which she is charged U S District Court Judge Oliver J Carter ruled that Miss taped statement was made voluntarily and that the prosecutor could use the tape and the testimony of a Los Angeles teenager who said that Miss Hearst and two others held him rt u assured feat the defendant will take the stand in her own defense and recount to the jury the story she has o fits presence in the past two days her version of life with her Liberation Army kidnapers prosecution in the case could wind up its case thia Atty James L Browning Jr said alter Wednesdays court session that he has in addition to playing the tape five or six more wit on technical matters detailing such things as the seizure of evidence and Miss last Sept 18 he said Chief defense counsel F Lee Bailey fought for two days at a special hearing outside the presence of the jary to suppress the taped communique and to prohibit testimony about a shooting and kidnaping incident in Los Angeles in which Miss Hearst aiso is charged Bailey acknowledged outside of the tape would sharply increase Jie likelihood that he will ask Miss Hearst to repeat or the jury the story she told to the judge and the world on Tuesday She testified that she lived in constant ear of being she lid not the time she was kidnaped on Feb 4 1974 shortly after her capture in San Browning called Kw story a he ana urged the to admit the lape and the evidence of her activities in Los Angeles Everything the court has heard from her coercion in a year and a half s not that by the preponderance of the evidence the government has established that the by the Defendant si ter tne happening of the bank robbery by recording orally to in advance from Carter Miss Hearst sat e Her parents Randolph and Gathers Hearst did not for several minutes See Hearst Page 12 Plan to Appoint Mine Inspector She Alley Says He Opposes Getting Rid of Elective Office PHOENIX AP A perennial bid to have an appointive instead of an elective state mme m appears dead after being in toe House Government Operations Committee Rep James R Sun City voted to hold the proposal which would voter ratification as a constitutional m of the stepped down from he Sto urge approval as the best assure that qualifications and not politics n president of the Arizona of Women Voters told the committee tte league backing for the same reasons be responsible to governor who would determine the Vilifications of the man he Mrs Referring indirectly to incumbent inspector Bert Romero said Its no secret we have problems with the present situation but I hops no one votes for or against this for that His allusion was to Romeros previous ap before B House committee during which of administrative incompetence were Several committee members however dissented from the view that an appointive mine inspector would be an improvement Over the years most of our inspectors have been good and I cant think we should change an elective office because of this said Rep Juanita Harelson Reo Tom Alley DAjo said hed spent most of his life in a mining community and opposed getting rid of an elective If they do a good job we can show them by re electing said Alley Rep Carl attempted to save the with an which would have required the inspector to have a degree in mining engineering Rep Jerry Moore ended debate on that point with a move to hold the generally tantamount to burying it In other action the committee agreed to abolish the Economic Estimates Commission created in 974 as part of a referendum to put a cap on state spending The referendum failed but the com mission survived as an unneeded appendage Its primary duty is to furnish the legislature with an economic forecast by Jan I each year in formation which is already available from the Revenue Department Senate Due f Vofe on Stump Predicts insurance Biff Will Be Passed Toddy PHOENIX AP The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved its version of medical malpractice insurance legislation clearing the way for full Senate action later in the day Senate President Bob Stump said the Senate would begin working on the in the af and he was hopeful of passage by the full Health and Welfare Committee ap proved the heavily amended edition of the House bv a unanimous vote Wednesday and sent the meas ure to the Appropriations Committee today which also unanimously endorsed the measure Senate Majority Leader Alfredo Gutierrez D Phoenix who also doubles as chairman of the Health Committee agreed that a final vote may be taken later today by the Senate depending on any further changes We could take a final vole if debate doesnt run too late or produce any major Gutierrez ex Sen Jones indicated he will attempt to restore that part of the House which limited contingency fees for attorneys in mal practice suits A major change by the Senate committee was to strike out the limit set by the House for filing of malpractice suits The Senate committee has recommended four years and extending to file suits for youngsters up to age 16 The House limit for suits on behalf of minors was age 8 Once approved by the Senate the revisions will be tested in a joint conference committee charged with obtaining a suitable compromise before the March 1 target date for sending the to the governor The legislature hopes to have a underwriting program in operation by April l when the states last private medical malpractice insurer quits the field FENCERS from around recently rattled their epees In at a weekend long fencing meet held In the High School gymnasium About 25 devotees of the sport from the Phoenix and Tucson areas outfitted Uie above gave the town a of a sport that is n In this stats See staff photographer Jim Thomsons photo feature on page 8 o today Dispatch
