Tucson Citizen (Newspaper) - October 24, 1977, Tucson, Arizona STOCKS DOWN VOL 107 NO 254 Tucson Citizen STOCKS PAGE TUCSON ARIZONA MONDAY OCTOBER 24 1977 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 38 PAGES 15 CENTS US aid demanded farmers threatening strike By KEITH CAREW SUlt A group of angry Cochise County farmers who say they have been losing money for three years and will have to go out of business unless crop prices increase have joined a nationwide agricultural strike Petitions representing 150 to 200 Cochise farmers will be presented to US Sen Dennis DAriz tomorrow demanding that Congress enact legislation by Dec 14 guaran teeing prices that at least cover production expenses of farm ers Otherwise the farmers will take their land out of produc tion next year said Jim Bre a McNeal farmer and spokesman for the group We not only cant make any money said Breckenridge we cant get the money back A quick look at attorneys alter Anthony G Kiritsis who held a mans life against demands for million nine months ago may be set free despite psychiatric reports that say he is dangerous asocial violent and likely to again come into conflict with the law Charges of kidnaping armed robbery and extor tion were wiped out Friday when an Indianapolis jury found reasonable doubt that was HIM when he tied Richard 0 Hall to a shotgun and kept him hos tage for 63 hours in Februa ry Details page approved the new Cml ty a margin in voting yesterday the mure of tig in the of the US Senate With about per cent of the vote count ed nearly 375000 were in favor of the tra whtte about wore it A total of more than ptr cent of the voters ballot In the election Humphrey homecoming President Carter and Vice President Mon stood back all but ignored while the senior senator from Minnesota waded into the welcoming crowd in Washington DC to shake hands Hubert H Humphrey had returned to the nations capital yesterday u a special pas senger on Air Force One Humphrey suffer ing from inoperable cancer wilt return to his Senate seat tomorrow Details page Water President Carter has told a gathering of Western governors that he has no intention of preempting states rights in revising federal water policy Carter was obviously anxious to smooth the ruffled feelings of Westerners who have been concerned over Carters zest for cut ting federal funding of new dams and reser voirs Many such projects require both fed eral and state funds But Carter emphasized that he had a responsibility to make sure that more water projects were justified Tucson Citizens endorsements in city election page Veterans Day Carter ww to a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery today the last time that Veterans Day will be observed in October The nation will return to the traditional Nov 11 date next year Congress had chanced the date In to promote more weekends Risky research university of Michigan researchers this week plan to sun landmark research involving the trans fer of genes from one organism into er The work could produce new organisms or techniques useful in Industry or medicine particularly cancer study Critics however fear the possibility of an alien catastrophic creation beyond mans control Death penalty High rates and prison sentences deter murder but the death penalty rarely does a report by the Minnesota Law Review says Researcher Brian Forst studied murder statistics for 32 states for the 196070 de cade Court challenges stopped executions in the United States between 1967 and last January Energy House and Senate energy conferees agreed today to provide federal grants to help families schools and hospitals purchase insulation and other devices The conferees agreed to make grants of up to available to families earning up to onefourth more than the national poverty level The Senate has rejected most of the Presidents energy proposals The confer ence committee must reconcile the House and Senate differences and produce a final The conferees also approved a million threeyear program of energy con servation grants to schools and hospitals Summers exit Takes more than imagination in idyllic climes To wax poetically clever for suitable rhymes Cole Delick It would appear that summer which lasted about eight months this year or at least seemed to finally has given up the ghost Little change is in store from the blue skies and moder ate temperatures that marked a weekend The mer cury tomorrow may shoot a few degrees above yesterdays high of 80 but nights will continue on the cool side in the For the curious yesterdays mean temperature was 67 degrees or normal for the date The low reading this morn ing was 56 Full weather report page inside TV VIEWERS in Tuc son may have to resort to witchcraft or some mighty expensive anten nae to get decent tion given the obscure location of the transmit ters behind a mountain Page IB ARIZONA coach Tony Mason cant kick about the Wildcats per against Utah as their heretofore woeful kicking game finally came to life and led to an easy victory Page ID Chuen Charlies See page Classified Comics Deaths Editorial Financial AM Landers 1 UK Weather Yaw Stars JC SA 21 W 1A SA R that we put into our crops to produce them What were demanding is 100 per cent pari The nationwide strike was organized in Colorado by un happy wheat growers and has spread to 45 states said Bre Cochise is the first county in Arizona to take such action Breckenridge said fanners in the area of Cochise County involved in the threatened strike own about 21000 acres 14 per cent of the total 150000 cropland acres in the county He predicted many more farmers would join the movement Land that would lie fallow starting this winter supports com cotton chill peppers sorghum and lettuce Farmers also are threatening to sell their cattle rather than contin ue to take financial losses said Breckenridge The farmers claim that In Cochise County alone last year they lost 96 million They point out that a strike would have ripple effect in Southern Arizo nas economy because of tot tax revenue unemployment and loss to agricultural equip ment suppliers Breckenridge said prices as measured against expenses at their lowest since the Great of the Farmen have supported the American public with cheap food for the last 90 said Our prices are the same at they were during the De pression We still get V cents pound for He cited increased of fertilizers and machinery that farmers hive not been abte to pass on to the consumer The price of ma chinery for example has climbed 200 per cent in four years he said Farmers are getting only 40 to 77 per cent of what they put into their crops according to statistics by national lenders of the threatened strike As of Aug IS for example com was bringing a bush el compared to the cost of producing it Other crop prices compared to costs wheat 201 1503 barley soybeans sorghum cotton per hun cattle and hogs Autumns autograph FaBi cool tmt ril Mt M bom Mo ef eater Energy managers meet here More than 900 persons are expected to take part In the Interna tional Conference on Energy Use Management which begun today In Tucson Sen Charles H Percy RIII was to deliver the conferences keynote at 1 pm today at the Marriott Hotel Percy chairman of the national Alliance to Save Energy and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was to dis cuss the worldwide impact of the present energy situation Conference program chairman Rocco a University of Arizona engineering professor estimated more than 130 repre from 32 foreign countries will take pan In the confer ence Other prominent speakers at the meeting include SAR of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Coun tries Alex Eadie of the British Energy and Paolo Soleri an Arizona architect A giant model of Soleris city of the future now under construction north of Phoenix will be on display from pm to pm Wednesday and from am to pm Fri day In the Tucson Community Center Exhibition Hall Other exhibits will be presented by the new US Department of Energy as well as major corporations front 9 am to 6 today through Friday The exhibits are open to the public at no charge housing fight Foothills residents are ganging up By THOMAS P LEE Cillien Son Writer About 3500 angry residents in the Santa Catalina foothills have banded together to oppose a home builders attempt to construct housing Government observers say it has been several years since Tucson has seen such a massive coalition of residents band together for a cause any cause The target of the opposition is the Con struction Co which wants to build houses on 640 acres at the southeast corner of E Orange Grove Road and N 1st Ave The company already has the zoning to build houses on lots throughout its scenic property What bothers the foothills residents is the zoning request to develop the center of the land for two nous See letters to the editor page 1C es on every acre meaning about 200 extra houses Several town houses also are proposed for 25 acres at the northwest edge of the land spokesmen could not be contacted for comment despite repeated efforts Why are 3500 people upset about 200 houses After an analysis of hundreds of letters of tion to the project plus interviews with many home owners theNo 1 fear appears to be that the project would invite additional housing in the foothills With few exceptions the bulk of the foothills from Oracle Road east toward Sabino Canyon is developed with lots And some of the tions including some town houses were devel only after lawsuits were filed From most vantage points homeowners enjoy seeing the city lights sparkling in the desert night By day many are to took down toward the property They see thick stands of saguaro cacti clinging to rolling hills and some sharp slopes sepa rated by washes It makes a beautiful view for them and for a beautiful place to build houses Homeowners fear halfacre lots will mean more city traffic an influx of to houses into a neighborhood where home values are twice as much If bolls down lo opposition lo more traffic cheaper homed and the intrusion of more people into a fairly quiet region of the city and a general intrusion of more people into a fairly quiet region of the city The project may also mean the beginning of a general disregard of deed restrictions character istic of foothills living residents say Be it good or bad foothills neighborhoods have prohibitions on while roofs and roofs with coolers on them rather than hidden beside the house Clothes lines too are These accessories will be standard with houses according to residents who have met with the This is partly the basis for more than 1000 letters and hundreds of telephone calls that have flooded the offices of the Board of Supervisors The supervisors are to decide the matter Nov 7 It was recommended for approval Sept 27 by the Planning and Zoning Commission In a meeting that left homeowners shocked at what they felt was insen to their arguments Their rage ranges from housewives and retired persons who are mildly upset about it to businessmen who are threatening political action Mrs Margaret Scroggs whose home overlooks the site isnt particularly angry about it She accepts the inevitable development of the land at least in lots I enjoy seeing the cactus and hearing the coy otes and watching the quail around here But I just dont want more traffic and the higher Musing densi ties are going to bring on shopping plazas here some day She hasnt written a letter signed a petition or telephoned a county supervisor Then theres William E Page senior vice dent of the First National Bank the type of promi nent businessman whose words command attention from politicians In a letter to the supervisors he prefaced his remarks with Seldom do I do what I am going to do in the following paragraphs At election time I fully intend to oppose any candidate in any way possible as a direct result of an affirmative vote for this rezoning fiasco I number most of you as personal friends and I have supported some of you vigorously both monetarily and vocally f what obviously is occurring does occur 1 assure you I will worlf as vigorously in the other In one recent meeting some residents of Catalina Foothills Estates No 4 suggested Buying the land for a park I was at that meeting and I remember hear ing the people say You mean youre going to raise million for a park said Robert J Lebo of 6421 N Abbey The idea was quickly ruled out when
