Casa Grande Dispatch (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Casa Grande, Arizona Business Suspected Serial Killer Held in Massachusetts p 3 Vaqueros Vaqueras Both Upend Pima P 6 Price Increases Small Retail Sales Rise p to Final Countys Daily Newspaper A GRANDE CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85222 THURSDAY JANUARY 13 1994 NO 10 Bond ote 888843004434110 INC MICROPROCESSING DIV 2627E YANDELL DR EL PASO TX 79903 83rd Year 35C per copy Is Likely New School Sought Timing Weighed By STEVE WALLACE Staff Writer A bond election for a new Casa Grande Union High School looks inevitable The only question now is when The Facilities Commit tee been exploring the need and feasibility of building a new high school since last sum mer decided during its regular meeting Wednesday night to wait on recommending a date for the election The committee is looking at a May or November bond election but some members want to see if the Casa Grande Elementary School District signs on to a pro posal to convert parts of the exist ing high school campus into a sec ond junior high school Committee members generally agree that community may not support the building of a new high school if the existing campus cant be saved specifically Old Main A Casa Grande Elementary committee is looking into the idea of converting part of the existing campus into a second school and a recom should be ready next elementary board tHe during regular meeting on Feb 8buj from school and tlie elementary school district indi a special meeting could be called i The high school board must call for a bond election by ary if it is to be held in May committee is also drafting requests for proposals to reuse the campus in other ways such as a community col lege a fouryear college or other possibilities The facilities committee has al ready decided that a new high school accommodating up to students should be built anyplace other than the current downtown location The committee is looking at some possible 60acre sites in a zone on the eastern edge of the city enrollment has been growing over the past few years and the school at its capacity know where were go ing to put any more Board President Deanna McHaney said Students are no longer allowed to attend classes in Old Main or Building 1 since it was declared a potential fire hazard by the state fire marshal last year Other buildings on campus are outdated or deteriorating and the consen sus is that the only real option left aside from building a hew high school is to install more porta ble But theres no room and school officials are already having prob lems keeping the roughly current students on campus and nonstudents off McHaney said the grassy area in front of the library on Florence Boulevard may have to be ripped out to put in a portable building and has said in the past that the baseball field may have to be used And if they dont like it there too bad I get angry just thinking about said McHaney who has been on the high school board through three unsuccessful bond elections I think its disgusting that this community cant support some thing for our children that is in the best interests of the McHaney said after the meeting that the district is considering fencing the campus to control some of the problems Some members of the commit tee thought that a May date for a bond election might be bad be cause another election on a budget override for the high school district is scheduled for March Some committee members thought that two elections that page 18 it Yeltsin Says Reform Effort Wont Stop AP Protested A GROUP of Ukrainians demonstrate outside airport Wednesday shortly before the arrival of President Clinton The small group was protesting the agreement with Ukraine to eliminate the thirdlargest nuclear arsenal in the world by the end of the century By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin as sured President Clinton at the Kremlin today that Russia will not give in to pressure to abandon tough reforms In a goodwill ges ture the nations will stop target ing nuclear missiles at one er officials said At this tumultuous time in Rus sian history Clinton told a group of Russian political and cultural leaders You are in the process of transforming your entire econo my while you develop a new con and democracy as well It boggles the mind and you have my Clinton found Yeltsin very much on top of his game and firmly in Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Yeltsin in fact is not only com mitted to economic reform but prepared to accelerate it Trea sury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said at a joint news conference with Christopher President Yeltsin emphasized there is no turning back from fighting inflation and continuing to Bentsen said noting that Russian inflation had dropped from 30 percent to 12 per cent a month last year Opening three days of talks Yeltsin and Clinton strode from opposite ends of the vast Hall of St George in the Kremlin meet ing in the center of the gleaming white and gold room for a warm handshake They were ending the day with a private dinner at coun try home outside Moscow The issue was to be discussed then an administration official said Clinton hoping to steel Yeltsin against rising opposition to his Clinton page 18 Special to Six of swen irrigation districts served by the Project have waived then rights to receive delivery of Colorado River water under longterm contracts In exchange for waiving these rights the Central Arizona Water Conservation District the CAPs operator agreed not to enforce the provision of the contracts Thomas C Clark gen eral manager in making the an described it as a ma jor step toward increasing use of and decreasing water prices JAP In response the board infirm Under tural districts would have been re quired to pay in advance on their entire water allotments a portion of the CAPS operation mainte nance and replacement costs whether or not the water was delivered of the districts reported they would be unable to meet the provision and would be forced into bankruptcy They also stopped ordering CAP water In the board of directors voted unanimously in October to give the districts the opportunity to waive their CAP allotments 1 Retention The only district opting to retain a portion of its CAP entitlement for which it will fulfill the take obligation was the San Tan Irrigation and Drainage Dis Currently the obligation is per acrefoot of water San Tan originally was eligible to receive 77 percent of water available to tural dis reduced its eligibility to 034 percent of available agricultural water which in 1994 amounts to 374 The other districts and the per centage of agricultural water they agreed to waive are Irrigation and Drainage District percent Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District 18 01 percent Queen Creek Irrigation Dis percent New Magma Irrigation and Drainage District B Tonopah Irrigation District percent Chandler Heights Citrus Irri gation District 28 percent By waiving their rights to water under longterm contracts the districts became eligible to re a portion of a pool of of Colorado River water at a price of per acrefoot in 1994 The price is scheduled to rise per acrefoot each year through 1999 Irrigation districts that gave up longterm contracts before Oct 1 Water page 18 Florence Board Extends Superintendents Contract By JASON VOSU Staff Writer FLORENCE Superintendent Eric Kleinstiver will be around for at least one additional year as far as school board is concerned After a lengthy executive ses sion Wednesday during evaluated the su they voted 41 to ex tend his contract through the 1995 96 school year The board also accepted the res ignation of the district mainte nance and transportation tor and decided to pay for students driver education classes Newly appointed board Presi dent Richard Montano said of performance as su I think hes doing satisfactory in other cases outstanding Its hard for a superintendent to come into the situation that he County and Dear For the 12 National 67 Valley came he said referring to conflicts within the district over the last year Montano said he thought his comments reflected the general feeling of other except Dolores Dodie Freeman was the lone dissenter in the vote She said I believe he has not performed his duties in the best interests of the school She also said she feels Klein stiver is not a man of his word or sincere Freeman said her state ments were a summary of how she felt Kleinstiver had per formed but could not go into detail Freeman did however con gratulate Kleinstiver on his con tract extension upon her depar ture from the meeting Responding to Freemans Florence page 18 Bodyguard Admits Plot On Kerrigan PORTLAND Ore AP Tonya Hardings bodyguard told investigators that he Hardings exhusband and two other men set up the attack that injured pic figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan according to news reports The bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt confirmed that Jeff Gil looly from whom Harding was di last year to ar range the Jan 6 attack The newspaper reported to Kerrigan page 18 Photo May Show Younger Lincoln NEW YORK AP A pio neering photographer didnt catch the young man saying cheese 150 years ago perhaps lending credibility to claims a small antique picture is the ear liest known photo of Abraham Lincoln There is the faintest hint of a smile on the young mans face but the overall look in the oval photo is eerily similar to the more somber faced presidential photographs The image is uncannily Lui Harold Holzer a Lincoln scholar wrote in Amer ican Heritage magazines Feb issue If the photo was taken in 1843 as photography historian Jo seph Buberger estimated Lin coln would have been 34 years old There is no stovepipe hat but the man resembling the future president was caught striking a leadership pose holding one hand partially inside his vest like Napoleon The picture was found in Pittsford the magazine said The image has Lincolns well known mouth but Holzer notes that the overall impression fails to mesh with his known He says that wouldnt be un usual however since most pho tos of the 16th president were taken at least 14 years later Im sure its the real Mc Buberger said calling it priceless AP WHAT MAY be the earliest portrait of Abraham Lincoln a da old has surfaced in 7 3by3inch oval image 5s esti mated to date from 1843 images of Lincoln were taken at least 14 years later Buberger of North Haven dated the daguerreotype by the thickness of the glass and the style of brass mat covering In 1843 Lincoln was living in Springfield where at least two professional photographers were practicing the infant art of daguerreotype Holzer said Buberger was consulted by the current owners of the photo Robert and Joan Hoffman of Pittsford who bought it from a dealer about 1 years ago and wanted it authenticated The purchase price wasnt disclosed A previous owner had been Al ice Hay Wadsworth the daugh ter of John Milton Hay Lin assistant White House secretary and secretary of state in later administrations Holzer wrote Lincoln was president from 1361 until assassination
