Tucson Citizen (Newspaper) - November 28, 1977, Tucson, Arizona Tucson Citizen VOL 107 NO TUCSON ARIZONA MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 1977 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 38 PAGES 15 CENTS High court refuses Arizona killer loses his plea WASHINGTON DPI The Supreme Court today turned aside a convicted murderers challenge to the way the death penalty is meted out in Arizona The justices left intact the states capital punishment law which is similar to the Florida law they upheld in 1976 They declined to review the death sentence of Jose Jesus Ceja convicted of murdering marijuana dealer Randy Leon and his wife Linda in Phoenix in 1974 Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan who oppose all capital punishment said they would have liked to nullify the death sentence But they were outvoted by the full court Although Ceja has completed a round of appeals through the state courts he may yet ask a US District Court judge to save him from execution At least 17 persons are on death row at Flo rence The states death penalty took effect Aug 8 1973 State officials expected it to stand court tests because it was similar to a Florida law upheld by the Supreme Court in 1976 Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt today said he doubts that any of the death row inmates at the Arizona State Prison would be put to death any time soon as a result of the US Supreme Court ruling Supreme Court wont stop efforts to break up By Wire Strokes WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court today refused to stop government efforts to dismantle American Telephone Telegraph Co In another case it agreed to decide whether water may be mined on public lands with or without permission In the case the high court let stand rulings by a federal trial judge and the US Cir cuit Court of Appeals here that the Justice De may sue for antitrust violations Todays action is a major victory for the government in its attempts to have the antitrust lawsuit it filed in 1974 reach trial has contended that it could not be sued on antitrust charges because it is heavily regu lated by the Federal Communications Commis sion and state agencies Legal review of that contention has postponed any progress in the governments case In other actions today the Supreme Court stand a lower courts ruling that test pilots in their 50s cannot be taken off the job simply because of their age to review a decision by New Jers eys highest court that the state has a right to prohibit the dumping of garbage within its borders it would decide whether the companies that built the Alaska oil pipeline are entitled to crude oil transportation prices that the govern ment contends are exorbitant stand the conviction of a Louisville Ky man who contends he did not receive a fair trial because he apparently was under the ence of drugs in the courtroom The Justice Departments complaint was filed against Western Electric Co a producer of communications equipment and Bell Tele phone Laboratories a research arm But only the preliminaries have been completed operates it own or long lines department and owns or is affiliated with 23 companies that comprise Ma Bell The parent company had assets of billion in 1974 It is the most widely held public corporation in the world charges that has violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by monopolizing telecom service and equipment in a variety of ways For instance the complaint said had restricted its purchases of equipment to Western Electric and blocked connection of cus equipment into its system The government asked that and West em Electric be separated The complaint also said the manufacturer should be relieved of enough manufacturing assets and long lines department should be sufficiently separated from the Bell operating companies to ensure competition In the other case which could particularly affect the exploration for underground water in arid Western states the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that said water may legally be retrieved from public lands under a mining law The Interior Department is fighting the rul ing contending it will unsettle the law of water rights throughout the western states drawing into question the validity of private rights long thought to be established At issue is an interpretation of an 1872 act that allows individuals or business concerns to mine valuable mineral deposits on public lands Such mining is allowed if the party can prove that any prudent person would think it justified and if the mineral is marketable or its use profitable Sadat getting snubs May meet Israel alone CAIRO Egypt UPI Egypt has invited Arab nations Israel and the superpowers to preliminary peace talks in Cairo but it may end up facing Israel alone across the ating table President Anwar Sadat pro posed the exploratory talks Saturday and said he hoped they would finish what we started when he visited Israel the first Arab leader to do so since the Jewish state was founded 29 years ago Acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghali delivered formal invitations last night in quick meetings with the ambassadors of the United States the Soviet Union Syria and Jordan and the Lebanese charge Other summit Syria and the Palestine Lib Organization spumed the offer and said they will take part instead in a summit of Arab radical states beginning Thursday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Israeli Prime Minister Mena hem Begin accepted the invita tion and planned to explain his governments position today in a special parliament debate in Jerusalem Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States has respond ed to offer In Washington the White House said President Carter was trying to be in the posi tion of being supportive of latest peace initiative but was still discussing the Cairo meeting with the other invited nations Sadat said the purpose of the Cairo meeting would be to prepare for a Gene va peace conference so that we can discuss the case in a matter of months not years Start Saturday In a series of television inter views Sadat said the talks would start possibly as early as next Saturday even if only Israel showed up It is up for everyone to decide for himself but if the Israelis come only I shall start the conference Diplomatic sources said it was highly unlikely the Soviet Union would take part in view of the opposition and the mutual recriminations exchanged by Sadat and Mos cow Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam was flying to Moscow today for talks Syria announces its ic rejection of call for peace in Cairo a Syrian spokesman said late yesterday It sees in this call an at tempt to cover up the complete failure of visit to Israel and a pretext to invite the Is to Cairo and reach with them a unilateral and capitula settlement the spokes man said Syria and other Arab critics of Sadat suggested such a set would betray Arab demands for a full Israeli with from occupied Arab lands and for establishment of a Palestinian state The invitation to the PLO was delivered Saturday night by Foreign Undersecretary Osama at a stormy meeting with Ahmed Sidky al Dajani a member of the PLO Executive Committee by PK Music with muscle If its this much trouble to lug the thing home from school imagine what a mass o woe it is to play it The musician here is Michelle Davis J daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard Davis of E Fair mount Ave She attends John D Wright Elementary School a good walk from home A quick look Holiday horror While the holidays bring happi ness to most of America they mean death and tragedy to many By the end of this Thanksgiving weekend 461 persons had lost their lives on the nations highways Highway officials blamed some of the destruction of human life on miserable weather snow over much of the Midwest and Northeast The National Safety Council had predicted 460 to 560 persons would die on the highways be tween 6 pm Wednesday and midnight last night California as usual led the nation with 59 highway fatali lities New York was a distant second with 24 Death in Rhodesia The Rhodesian govern ment today reported at least 1200 black nationalists killed in ground and air attacks on two guerrilla bases in bique A military command statement said the bases were used by Rhodesian Mack nationalist guerrillas fighting to topple the white minority government Hughes Will A trial to settle the complicated question of Howard Hughes controversial Mormon will began today in Las Vegas The will was presented by former Hughes aide Noah Dietrich who is named executor in the document Another interesting point in the will is a bequest to service station operator Melvin Dummar who reportedly helped the billionaire before he died The Mormon will leaves little to Hughes relatives who say the document is a forgery PCC election There are but three candidates in tomorrows District 2 election for a seat on the troubled Pima Community College Board of Governors For a look at how the candidates stand on the key issues and a map and listing of polling places see Page Balmy Tucson Live in the Midwest Mumbling Be ike the And grow some fur Theres a cold front in Montana snow from the Great Lakes through New England and central Illinois has found itself hosting the coldest temperatures in 90 years Ahhh but what a different story here Fair dry weather should prevail through Wednesday with highs in the low 70s and overnight lows in the upper 40s There will be high cloudiness and breezes in the afternoons Coolder temperatures and gusty winds that are due to sweep through Northern Arizona shouldnt trouble the deserts Yesterdays high was 82 a balmy 13 degrees above the normal high for the date and just three degrees off the re cord of 85 set in 1950 The overnight low was 49 Full weather report Page Main library It does have some charm in sists the head of the main library staff But the relic of a building has become so inadequate that there wouldnt be room for all the books in its collection if they were all returned at once Details Page Whats inside are everywhere says University of Arizo na art professor Warren Anderson Hes studying the paraphernalia of the car culture like this fading sign from a time before the word motel worked its way into our lan guage and motorists stayed in cabins instead See story and photos Page 1C I HARRY AND ALICE Babcock trade verbal jousts with a skill and abandon that can only come from long practice Make that long long practice Theyve been married for 70 years Page IB CITIZEN SPORTSWRITER Corky Simpson found a cal ingredient lacking in the football game Fri day hatred Page ID Classified Crossword 1C Deaths Financial JD Aim Landers 2B Movie Times Pub Weather Your Stars Citizen Charlies Crossword Sec page Managers have all the power mobile home parks rule of one By THOM WALKER Political Writer Overnight the good life in a Northwest Side mobile home park was transformed into a life of fear and uncertainty under the rule of a tyranni cal landlord After a management shuffle surprised resi dents were slapped with a rate increase and drastic changes in the rules governing life in the park One couple was evicted without explanation shortly after they moved into the park When asked about it the park manager claimed it was because they had a dog out lawed for newcomers under the revised rules The couple didnt have any pets Oh then it must have been because they didnt cut their grass the manager said The yard where the couple had lived was graveled That case is the exception said Robert H Riester president of the Tucson unit of the Arizona Mobile Housing Association a statewide organization of about 400 park owners and man agers Some people do suffer he said Im really sorry that there are landlords like that were trying to change that image It shouldnt be that way Riester the owner of Green Meadows Trailer Park at 1135 E Prince Road said he has not evicted anyone in the seven years hes been rent ing spaces for mobile homes But interviews with tenants in some of the other 200 mobile home parks in the Tucson area revealed many complaints Rents have been raised without notice and extra charges for pets or swimming privileges have been tacked onto monthly bills in violation Analysis of rental agreements In one park tenants re cently were told they would be charged an extra monthly to cover vandalism in the courts recreation center Landlords in some cases have abused their power over park tenants In one North Side park a manager burst into a womans home without knocking then searched through the house until he found her in the bedroom Her grass needed cutting the manager warned Under state law landlords have no right to enter a tenants home unless invited And tenants are forced into the expensive process of having their homes moved to another park in some cases for little reason except as one man said the landlord didnt like the way I combed my hair Another man was given an eviction notice after he asked for a lease only to turn it down because it wouldnt hold water In one park a woman was ordered out because her landlord said he wanted her space for a relative Landlords simply have carteblanche pow er says Herman Berlowe a former president of the Mobile Home Owners of Tucson a tenants association Tenants have very little protection if a landlord doesnt like you out you go The problem is very few mobile homes are truly mobile anymore and moving them even a short distance can be expensive Estimates from two Tucson companies ranged from to for a local move depending upon the size of the mobile home For tenants many of whom are elderly and people the only alternative is to put their home up for sale or rent which fre meaas a loss on an investment that can go as high as The issue of evictions received widespread publicity last week when Julie K Thompson a widow with two teenage children was moved out of a Northwest Side park after a court battle against her landlord It was the first court test of the 1975 Arizona Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act which members of the tenants asso say is the cause of most of their prob lems Richard Deibel manager and of Fair Haven Mobile Home Park 775 W Roger Road had ordered Mrs Thompson out of the court in April 1976 after saying she had violated park rules Among other things Deibel complained that Mrs Thompsons son repaired his car on their lot that the family had too many cars played their radio too loudly at night and let their dog run loose During one of the five court trials and two appeals court hearings that followed friends of the Thompsons testified that they were good neighbors One of the friends was evicted after wards Mrs Thompson says the park rules were enforced selectively some residents were al lowed to get by with violations while others were expected to comply Its harassment she said last Monday while workers from a towing com pany stripped down her home for moving I donl think its right that they can just tell people they have to move As it bounced around from Justice Court to Continued page 2A Vorster favored in Africa LA Mem JOHANNESBURG South Africa White voters in South Africa go to the polls day in general elections that are expected to retain Prime Minister John Vorster and his National Party in power with a bigger majority than ever be fore That is saying something considering that the National ists made up mostly of conser Calvinist Afrikaners have been in power for 29 years with Vorster as head of the party for the past 11 years In the present Parliament Vorster supporters hold 129 seats to their opponents 42 and the margin is expected to be increased in the new elec tions Now 61 and apparently at the height of his political popularity with the white population Vorster called for the elections almost two years before they were due because of interna tional pressure on his govern ment over its race policies
