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Bath! Staf GOOD MORNING Without all that hot air, some big wheels would be nothing more than flat tires. SECTION TWO Editorial Classified News Sports Comics An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially it TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1968 VOL 127 NO. 338 SECTION 6 PAGE ONE Pete Rubi By City Council Plans eel pti'OW Whalen Sent Back To Hospital Defendant Insane At Time Of Slaying Paul K. Vhalen yesterday was recommitted to the Arizona State Hospital by Superior Court Judge Lawrence Howard, who ruled Whalen was innocent by reason of insanity of the 1957 slayings of a Marana rancher and his wife. Testimony from three psychiatrists recommended commitment of the self-confessed killer to the hospital where he has been most of the nearly 12 years since the shotgun deaths of Freelin Huff, and his Japa-nr-o wife.

Drs. Harrison Baker, Willard Shankel, and Robert I. Cutts, testified in the last of a three-phase surprisingly rapid trial without a jury. Before court-appointed defense attorneys D. Dale Haralson and Charles Giles waived the right to a jury trial it was expected to last two weeks.

It took about five minutes, except for later testimony by psychiatrists. William J. Augustine chief criminal deputy county attorney submitted the state's case on the basis of the preliminary hearing held several years ago. The de Ail At Randolph Park City To Operate Driving Range Accommodations Worked Out With Golf Pro Dell Urich Under Renegotiated Lease The city will take oer the driving range at Randolph Park on Jan. 1 and hopes to up its annual income from the range bv as much as $26,000.

City operation of the range, now under lease to golf pro Dell I'riih for $14,000, was approved by the city council at a study session. 4 Love Af First Sight A romance may be in the making at Randolph Park Zoo soon with the arrival yesterday of a mate for Sheik, the zoo's camel. The mate, as yet nameless, is pictured, bottom, with the male animal. She was presented to the growing zoo by George Kalil of Kalil Increase Averages $4 A Day 3 Tucson HosmicJs I'rich will continue his operation of the pro shop at the Randolph course under a renegotiated lease that will bring him about $15,000 a year or about the same he made with it and the driving range lease. City Purchasing Agent Tim Campbell said I'rich netted last year from the range but split this with a partner, Fred Tess.

I'rich made net from the pro shop, golf cart rental, teaching and green fee handling. I'nder the new lease I'rkh will earn more from the pro shop profits and for handling green fees for the 30-hole course. The council has under study an offer by Urich and two other Transit Firm Report Due This Week PHOENIX (AP) State Corporation Commissioner Milton J. Husky said Monday that an accounting firm is expected to complete its report on Tucson Transit Co. this week.

I Completion of the report will set the stage for the commission i to rule on a request by the bus Trial Jury Selected Sfafe To Begin Its Evidence Today By c. hkltslky The trial of County Supervisor Pete Rubi on bribery charges opened yesterday in Superior Court with the selection of a jury of eight women and four men. First witnesses for the state will take the stand today. It took most of the day to choose the 12 jurors and two male alternates from a panel of 45 persons. The trial is expected to last three weeks.

Judge Lloyd C. Helm, of Cochise County, who will preside, turned down a complaint by the defense that there were not enough Mexican-Americans on the panel. Defense Ally. J. Gordon Cook, of Phoenix, made an hour-long opening argument in which he said he will call a lot of witnesses "to open up every avenue of dealings" by the star witness, developer Donald W.

Depugh, "to show you that there is abso- lutely no basis for his charges." Cook will be assisted by Val Cordova, a Phoenix attorney. i County Atty. William J. Scha-fer III made a brief 15-minute opening statement, saying he expected to prove that Rubi, a former chief criminal deputy county attorney under another administration, accepted $2,000 in April 1864, and $1,000 in February 1906. Depugh claims he paid the money to Rubi to influence re-zoning of two tracts of land in i the northeast foothills area.

The real estate broker also contends 1 he was under duress from business associates he called the "Chicago group." The 46 and 50-acre tracts are in an area bounded by Skyline Swan and Ina Roads, and Alvernon Way. Rubi, who was defeated in his bid for renomination as Democratic candidate for a fourth term last month, has denied taking the bribes, and claims instead lhat he took a single campaign contribution of $200. Student's Death Being Examined Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting death of a 20-year-old University of Ari- zona student whose body was discovered in the Catalina foot-1 hills early yesterday. The body of Joseph Williams Goldstein, no address available but who listed a Student Union post office box number of 9785, i was found near the Tucson Rod 1 and Gun Club, off Sabino Can von Rd. Goldstein apparently died from a gunshot wound, deputies said.

Stewart Udall Calls Mine-Safety Talks WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, prompted by the coal mine disaster in Mannington. W. has announced an emergency conference Dec. 12 to seek ways of improving mine safety.

Udall sent invitations to 175 leaders in government, labor and the mining industry; the list includes 17 U.S. senators, 21 representatives and the governors of 19 coal-mining states. Tucson's three largest hospitals, Tucson Medical Center, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's, have raised their room rates by an average of $4 a day for all services.

Donald G. Shropshire, administrator of TMC and president of the Southern Arizona Hospital Council, said the rate increases were dictated, in large part, by i Program Will Cost $16 Million By DON ROBINSON The City Council yesterday approved final plans for the $16 million community center, authorized a miniature train for Randolph Park and looked into acquisition of a park in Rolling Hills Subdivision. Final approval of the center's plans does not close the door on future changes that might be desired. City Manager Roger O'Mara assured the council. Members of the center authority and center commission will meet at 2 p.m.

tomorrow with architects to go over the plans. Oliver Draelmian, commission chairman, told the council that the tive-nian executive board iias approved the plans and he feds tins will be done by the entire commission tomorrow. S. J. (Buzz) Kossack, president of Kossack, advertising associates, urged the council to "take a second look" at plans for the arena and auditorium and make sure there is flexibility in the amount of seating that can be made available for different events.

Mayor James Corbett Jr. then appointed Kossack to advise the commission on what he has learned from viewing other auditoriums. City Parks Director Gene Reid was given a clear track to call for bids for construction and operation of a railroad for Randolph Park to facilitate movement of picnickers and other visitors around the park that takes in about 600 acres. The railroad cars would be large enough to seat adults and would run from the Randolph Way gate on E. 22nd St.

to a point just northwest of Hi Cor-: bett Field. The railroad would have an engine and three cars to begin with and cost about A 30-foot merry-go-round to be located near the E. 22nd St. gate will be included in the railroad bids and operation, Reid said-He told the council all steps needed will be taken to assure that a "carnival-type" atmosphere does not develop in the operation. The council authorized O'Mara to determine if Fred Busby, developer of Rolling Hills is willing to deed the city a four-acre park in the subdivision.

If this method is not successful the city will look into the possibility of setting up a "park improvement district" to acquire the park and assess cost against neighborhoods using it. Reid said the developer is asking $25,000 for the park but that it has about $40,000 worth of im-provments. Anthony Giambruno, 8725 Olympic Club presented the council a petition bearing 422 signatures asking that the city take over the park. Council members emphasized the city has no money for park acquisition at present and that there are other areas ot me city ll A. 1 tnai netu ParKS- Strike.

s-tok, 5trite; or -tteseHleJ kcHK I Ii3iDl company to go out of business, square-mile section of Terra del I Sol subdivision was given the The firm of Ernst Ernst was g0-ahead. Property owners noti-hired by the state to determine tne are willing to fense did similarly. At that time, Judge Howard found Whalen guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. Using testimony of two psychiatrists at an earlier sanity hearing, Howard declared Whalen insane at the time of the murders. Whalen was tried under the state's new sanity statute which allows two trials one on guilt or innocence and another on sanity.

The judge ordered Whalen to be held in maximum security, but cave hospital officials dis cretion to change the status when needed. The doctors said Whalen, while still ill and under heavy sedation, might at some later date be able to undergo treatment on an out-patient basis. He would come in every two weeks or so for medication and therapy- Defense lawyers in a day-long pretrial hearing last week has asked for suppression of evidence such as written and oral confessions to sheriff's deputies by Whalen following his arrest. They withdrew that motion prior to yesterday's trial. In the event Whalen, 41, should recover sufficiently he could be released from the hospital a free man.

3 Tucsonans To Join Mission To Israel Three Tucsonans will join a fact-finding series of flights to Israel this month and in January for the benefit of the 19G9 emergency fund drive of the United Jewish Appeal. Dr. Robert S. Hirsch, Dr. Milton Dworin and Leo M.

Morris will participate in the mission which aims for "better communication of the pressing needs in Israel that necessitate the drive," according to UJA general chairman Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland. By Pima Supervisors a of by better utilization of staffs and an "industrial engineering approach" to study work flow, time and motion, he said, in efforts to reduce costs. "The public has a right to know the reasons," Shropshire said, "but we are playing with the cards dealt us by the community." Some of those "playing cards," he said, were things that can't be controlled by hospitals such as population growth, increases in Social Security and Workmen's Compensation rates, group health insurance coils and the demand for the best in health care. "There is another tremendously important factor," he said. "In March, 1967, we paid for the first $1 million in liability insurance.

That cost 1 has risen 175 per cent to 000 a year, because of public i I 'V ITT MAJ. THOMAS BATTAIN Combat Pilot Meets Death In Vietnam Maj. Thomas Hrattain, who earlier this year trained with a combat training squadron at Da is-Monthan AFR, was killed last Thursday at his post in Da Nang, Vietnam. He in an air crash on the base. Maj.

Hrattain, 35, of 2024 S. Marc Drive, was a native of Portland, and a career officer with 13 years' service. Memorial services were held yesterday at Saint Paul's United Methodist Church here before services and burial in Portland. Maj. Hrattain is survived by his wife, Diana; two sons, Erie and Jeffrey; three daughters, Maria, Karen and Rebecca, his mother, Mrs.

Creed V. Hrattain, of Portland; two brothers, William, of Portland and Creed V. of Tacoma, and a sister, Mrs. Alfred L. Bailey, of Eugene, Ore.

The Air Force is In charge of funeral arrangements. City Plans To Condemn Water Firm The city expects to file a Superior Court lawsuit this week to condemn Citizens Utilities Water Co. lines serv ing about 2,500 customers. About 1,000 of the customers are in the eastern part of the city and have had to pay more than double the citv water rate. The other customers are east and north of the city.

City Water Department Director Frank Brooks said the con-j (leinnation will take in about 25 per cent of the total cash value of Citizens Utilities Water Co. and about two-thirds of its cus-; tomers. The City Council yesterday approved filing of the lawsuit which will establish the price the city must pay for the sys- tern. Actual takeover of the lines will be delayed until the water department can float a bond is- sue for the money. Brooks said that once the suit is filed the company will be forced to provide the city with information needed for a physi- cal evaluation of lines, wells and other company assets.

This is not now available, Brooks said. The company set its total in-; vestment at about $3.5 mi lion at i a hearing last spring for a rate increase. A temporary increase i was granted and a hearing to make this permanent is pending. Ceramics Class Opens At Pio Decimo Center The Pio Decimo Neighborhood Center has started classes in ceramics for residents of the center area. The free course is held every Fridav from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m. at i I I men to take over operation of the golf course and is now awaiting a detailed report from City Manager Roger O'Mara on financial assets of the course. O'Mara told the council yesterday the city plans to install automatic ball dispensers at the driving range and perhaps double deck rt to handle more golfers. During a regular session, the council held a public hearing on use of plastic water and sewer pipe outside of buildings and 1 then took the matter under study. Several witnesses testified for and against use of the pipe.

The council approved an application for a federal grant to pay about half the cost of extending city water service to the new Pasqua Village for the Yaqui Indians and for land obtained by veterans in Avra Valley. The city now has a small line running to the coiner of the Yaqui land. The veterans have put up $14,500 toward cost of a line to their land. O'Mara reported that considerable development is expected in the area in the next few years. A $200,000 improvement dis-1 trict for street lighting on a one- accept full assessment of the costs but want a rebate should the city go back to a policy of picking up part of the tab for residential street lighting.

An ordinance regulating vend-' ing machines was modified so machine owners do not have to report an exchange of one machine for the same type of machine at a particular location. Ruben Suarez of the city license department said the change will reduce the paper work for the city and will not relax the close watch his department has over vending machines. Phoenix Soldier Killed In Vietnam Action WASHINGTON (AP) Army Spec. 4 Arnold R. Diekema of Phoenix was among 82 men listed Monday as killed in action in Vietnam.

The Defense Department said the soldier was the son of Arnold Diekema of Phoenix. Up 12.1 Work Force protionate numbers, tha est blue collar jobs. low- Of the 112 agencies that responded to the questionnaire, it was found that eight employ 80 per cent of all minority group members. They are the University of Arizona, the Arizona Highway Department, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, the Children's Colony, the Arizona State Hospital, the Arizona department of Public Welfare and the State Employment Service. I Bottling Co.

(Sheaffer Photo) City loo Camel Gets Girl Friend Sheik, the male camel at Randolph Park's children's zoo, has girl friend. Kalil Bottling Co. officials yesterday presented a $1,500 check to Gene Reid, Tucson Parks and Recreation Dept. director, bringing the firm's total contribution to $2,000 for the purchase of the zoo's new girl camel that officially took up residence yesterday. The bottling company raised the money through various community participation projects.

Sheik, just four years old, has experienced a sheltered boyhood, and his sex life has been virtually nonexistent. Reid, however, has visions of "a herd of camels." A female camel is receptive to male camels all year, and the gestation period for a camel is 315 to 410 days. Tucsonans will watch with in terest as Sheik attempts to charm his new mate. It will undoubtedly be a number of years, course, before he produces a following that will reach herd proportions. Reid said Tucsonans are invited to submit name suggestions for the new girl to the parks and recreation or leave their proposals at the city zoo.

have devoted to helping this board have been of tremendous importance, both to the supervisors and the people of Pima County," Jay said. Weadock is on a leave of absence from the Star until March 17, 1969, at which time be plans to retire, marking the close of a career that has spanned reportorial work on the Lima (Ohio) Republican Gazette, the El Paso Post to reportorial and executive positions on the Star. the losses incurred for "giveaway services" medical care for the poor. TMC's increase, which went into effect Sunday, has brought the daily cost of a semiprivate room from $42 to $46. A bed in a ward, which cost $38 in November, now costs $42 a day.

In addition to $378,000 in medical care not paid for by any source, Shropshire said, TMC lost $121,360 in "contractual costs," when the hospital was paid part or a bill but not all the costs. "We don't charge St. Elizabeth of Hungary full costs," he explained, "nor vocational re habilitation or several other I groups we serve on a contract I basis." In addition, Shropshire said, TMC losses were $167,000 in pediatrics, $139,000 in the nursery and $93,600 in the cardiopulmonary laboratory, among others. "It's out first rate increase in 13 months," he said, "and I can't say I believe rates will ever go down. The very best we can do is try to slow the rate of increase, and I believe we are succeeding." All three hospitals have cut labor turnover by raising salaries and improving fringe benefits, He joined the Star in 1923 as a sports department writer-editor and has since worked in nearly every capacity in the Star's newsroom.

He was named assistant to Publisher William R. Mathews in 1953. Jay noted that the board rarely hands out certificates of appreciation, but when it does the recipient can be assured it is ell deserved. "You're now in the company of Frank Borman," he told M'eadock. i if loss claims by the company are accurate.

The City of Tucson has contested the statements, alleging in part losses are not as great as declared due to over-emphasis depreciation factors "We will meet as soon as the audit is in hand and that could be tomorrow," Husky said. "It would be a heck of a time to do it, but nobody has asked for a phase-out period," Husky said. He referred to the busy holiday season, with bus iraiiV-usually climbing because of Yule shopping. Husky said the City of Tucson has not come up with a "concrete proposal" on solving the problem. State officials have indicated further delays in ruling on the bus firm's petition would be unfair because negotiations between the company and city already have dragged on about six months while operations continued at a loss.

for orientals, are greatly under-represented in white collar and skilled craftsmen jobs, and are concentrated in the lowest-paying blue collar jobs. The survey shows that 83.9 per cent of white employees work in white collar and skilled craft jobs, compared with 83.3 per cent last year. Minority employees in these jobs, however have decreased slightly, from 53.9 per cent last year to 53.4 per cent in 1968. The Black worker in Arizona continues to occupy, in dispro- Minority Groups Make Of State Government's greed." A hospital must defend all suits against it, Shropshire explained, "even if a woman insists our chitKen soup made her sick. We may be found innocent, but we're going to have our insurance rates jump because of the suit." In the past two years, he said, TMC cosis in food expenses rose 26 per cent, drug costs doubled ann the every-otner-friday payroll now amounts to $240,000.

Shropshire said hospital room costs in New York CiLy and Chicago have reached $100 a day for regular care. (Cardiac care and intensive care units in Tucson range be. ween $100 and $114 a day ior specialized care.) One way to hold down costs, he said, is for private and public funds to endow high-expense hospital areas such as pediatrics. "Not for buildings, but for services, so we can keep costs down in those areas." Two years ago the rate of increase in costs was up about 15 per cent, Shropshire said. "This year we held it to 12 per cent, and with luck, next year, hope to hold it down to 10 per cent.

The lower we can hold the increase the less we have to raise our rates." Jack Weadock Hortore Jack Weadock, assistant to the publisher of the Arizona Daily Star, yesterday received from the Pima County Board of Supervisors a certificate of appreciation for his help and cooperation over the years. The framed certificate was presented to Weadock by Board Chairman Thomas Jay during an otherwise routine session in the board's meeting room in the Transamerica BIdg. "The time and energy you Minority group employes make up 12.1 per cent of "the state's governmental payroll, although they amount to one fourth of Arizona's population. The figures were reported in the Arizona Civil Rights Commission's third annual survey of minority group hiring practices released last week. The 12.1 per cent figure is an increase of .5 per cent over last year's survey, and 1.3 per cent over the 1966 figure.

Another finding was that minority group members, except the center, 848 S. 7th Ave..