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fflhe Arizona 3ailo Star Tucson, Monday, October 14, 199 Page Two Section ta I I I M. Jiv! "seCTli Ron Medvescek, The Arizona Daily Star the driver of a green, late-model Ford that ran her son, Paul, off the Spangrud Continued from Page IB his campaign organization and doesn't plan an announcement until January. He's talking to political consulting firms and is attending a seminar for Democratic Senate candidates in Washington, D.C., this week. He plans to raise $1 million to $2 million for his campaign. McCain has talked about raising $4 million.

"If we can raise half as much as the incumbent, I think we have a chance," he says. Spangrud says he isn't running because he needs the money. His net worth, he says, based on years of shrewd real estate investments and lots of "sweat equity" fixing up old houses, is "close to 1 million." He says he doesn't need the ego boost, either. "I've had my military career. I don't need the life of a senator to feel successful." So why is he running? "I'm running out of a sense of civic responsibility," he says.

"The people of Arizona deserve a choice. And I don't think John McCain has been good for the state." Spangrud plans to hammer away at the Keating affair. McCain was one of five senators implicated in an investigation of an effort to intervene on behalf of Charles Keating Jr. with federal banking regulators. McCain backed away from Keating, but took trips to the embattled banker's home in the Bahamas.

McCain's wife, Cindy, also invested with Keating in a shopping center. A report on the Keating affair recommended that McCain be cleared of wrongdoing, but the Senate ethics committee remains deadlocked. Spangrud praises McCain's war record, but says he can match it. Spangrud first came to Arizona as a young boy and attended the University of Arizona, obtaining a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1956. He maintained his Arizona residency during his military career, though he did become a Washington, D.C, resident for several years after his retirement.

I Spangrud's daughter, Dawn Eller-son, a medical student in Hawaii, and son, Jonathan Spangrud, an engineer in Dallas, are also UA alums. Pride and joy I Spangrud loves to play the banjo, tinker with his collection of antique jukeboxes or polish his pride and joy, a light-yellow 1937 Packard Roadster. The car is stunning, but it's also practical. Spangrud drove it to work at the Pentagon every day, and he plans to use it for campaign swings throughout Arizona. Spangrud is no captive of the past.

He is a modern warrior who is well-versed in electronic weaponry. He spent 14 years with the Pentagon and held several budgetary posi- t)ons in the Air Force. He was comptroller of the Air Force for two years, and also served as its budget director. Those jobs put Spangrud in charge of procuring several key weapons systems, including the AW ACS aircraft and the B-2 Stealth bomber. Combat mission He also did his time on the front lines of the Cold War as commander of a B-47 bomber assigned to the Strategic Air Command.

He learned the value of electronic warfare the hard way. In 1966, Spangrud was flying an F-4 Phantom out of Thailand. His objective was a heavily defended steel mill north of Hanoi. Spangrud's countersurveil-lance gear went out. "I was part of a formation of four aircraft, but every (anti-aircraft) gun was trained on me because my countermeasure gear was out," he said.

Somehow, he made it back. Military power Spangrud favors a well-armed military. He says he remembers 1980, when a military effort failed to rescue some U.S. hostages in Iran because equipment broke down and there weren't any replacements. Then came the military buildup during the '80s, which produced the powerful arsenal of weapons that humbled Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

"In Iraq, we were able to hit them with a heavy, sudden blow," said Spangrud. "After that, the rest of it was easy." That's why Spangrud does not favor any rush to dismember the armed forces. Existing budget plans already call for a 25 percent cut in spending, which includes a 50 percent drop in purchases of new systems. Overseas turmoil Those cuts are drastic enough, he says. Anything faster would be dangerous, especially since turmoil in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Middle East means no one knows what U.S.

military needs will be in the future. "We're cutting back as fast as we can," says Spangrud. "We need some time to study events because we don't know what the world will look like a few years from now." Spangrud dismisses the talk about military waste. "Most of the stories you keep hearing, all that stuff about $200 hammers and $600 toilet seats, really just involve a few incidents," he said. And most of those problems, he said, are really bookkeeping glitches in which development costs were tacked on to equipment that really was reasonably priced.

Thomas nomination Spangrud is conservative on other issues. He says he would support the nominations of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court and Robert M. Gates to the Central Intelligence Agency. He says he agrees with DeConcini that "you go along with the president unless you can find something really wrong with a nominee." He did say he was troubled by allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas, and said he agreed with the Senate's decision last week to post- pone its vote until it learned more about those charges.

He stakes out moderate positions on domestic issues. He opposes restrictions on abortions, wants tax breaks for the middle class and believes government should encourage the private sector to provide universal health care through a system of tax breaks. Germany and the Netherlands have kept health costs stable at 8 percent of their gross national product, while medical bills consume 12 percent of the United States' GNP, he says. "Medikld" program He thinks the first step for improved health care should be a new "Medikid" program geared toward the nation's children. Once again, however, he sides with conservatives on a cut in the capital gains tax.

Spangrud favors the cut, but wants to boost taxes for the wealthy to make sure the tax savings on capital gains are put into investments. Spangrud says he plans to work hard for the next year on his Senate campaign, but won't be brokenhearted if he loses. He already has a new project lined up. He has a 1948 Chrysler "Woodie" that he's stripped down to its metal frame. "If I don't accomplish my political objective, I'll go back to that project," he says.

Adriana Weston is trying to find Mystery Continued from Page IB lung, a compound fracture to his right leg and fractures in his left knee, pelvis and one vertebra in his lower back, she said. The car that ran Weston off the road was described as a shiny, forest green late-model Ford sedan with a loud exhaust system, said Sgt. Larry Lawrence of the Tucson Police Department's traffic investigations section. Moments before the accident, the car had just passed an off duty po son out there somewhere. "I'm angry because this driver is getting away with it.

The hardest thing for me now is watching my son who can't do anything for himself. He is very frustrated and in a lot of pain," said Adriana Weston. Paul, a Palo Verde High School dropout who began studying mechanics at the trade school in July, has a rough road ahead, said his mother. "He has to worry about infections and may need further surgeries and skin grafts on his right leg. He will never be the same again.

The doctor said his right leg may end up shorter than his left. He will have to go New Mexico school honors hard work, togetherness of Pacheco, his family LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) The highest-ranking Hispanic in U.S. higher education was a recipient of this year's Distinguished Alumni Awards at New Mexico Highlands University. Manuel Pacheco, 50, president of the University of Arizona, attended the Highlands homecoming Saturday with members of his northern New Mexico family.

The 14-member Pacheco family was honored as Highlands' first Distinguished Family for its values of hard work and togetherness. Pacheco's father, Manuel accepted the award while his wife, Elizabeth, said of their children, "They're probably blushing right now, wondering what their father is going to say and how he's going to say it." The elder Pacheco played down his role in all 12 Pacheco children graduating from college and four going on to receive advanced degrees. "How could I tell them to study?" he asked. "They were away (from home). How could I tell them not to stay out late? I give them all the credit" But the younger Manuel and his brother John, dean of instruction at Santa Fe Community College, insisted the credit go to their parents.

"There was no expectation of me to go to college there just wasn't any money and I never considered it," Manuel said. "But I was always expected to work hard." He said he went to Highlands because he scored took as a high school junior and was admission. he got a $50 scholarship, worked in gas station and got a summer job with department to pay for his education. siblings followed once he went to college. had an attitude of 'can-do' and they we could do anything," said John were farmers in northern New Mexico Manuel and Elizabeth traveled to the to find work in the summer.

Their first born near Rocky Ford, Colo. fires were set, officials say yesterday doused a pair of arson-sparked vacant midtown houses. started about 4:50 p.m. caused $50,000 in house in the 2400 block of East Elm Fire Department Capt Dan Newburn contained the blaze to the garage and it under control by 5:12 p.m., New-burn blaze started around 5:19 p.m. in a vacant 2200 block of North Margaret Avenue, contained to a small area and caused $1,500 Newburn said.

are about a half-mile apart, he said. said both fires were set, but said he did where they were started. road and nearly killed him ml Ki mm through a lot of therapy. "He will have to learn to walk again," she said. "A lot of prayer is, helping.

I have to keep going be- cause my son needs me." Family friends and relatives are 2 helping her cope, Weston said. She said her son's girlfriend is helping care for him because he needs 24- hour care. lL at Paul, whose spirits rise and fall, motivated to get better by his 11- month-old son, Stefan Paul Ronning, the mother said. 1 "I just want to see my son recover from this accident and not totally be traumatized," she said. G.E.

Cronk dies at 59; ex-water chief Gene E. Cronk, former director of the Tucson Water Department, died Thursday at age 59. Cronk headed the Water Department from 1977 to 1983, and, worked as its assistant director; from 1983 to 1985. He also served, as a director of the World Bank in Jamaica from 1984 to 1985. He also served as a deacon of, 1 Sabino Road Baptist Church, 271G" N.

Sabino Canyon Road. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, of Tucson; sons Chris-J topher of Tucson and Bill of Glen-dale; daughters Kelli Gene Shipp of Phoenix, and Tracy L. Shaw and Tanya A. Peters, both of Call-' fornia; parents Gene and Mary Cronk of Dayton, Ohio; and sister Pattie L. Shane of Tucson.

A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. today at Sabino Road. Baptist Church. Memorial donations to the church's building fund are requested. Hall of Fame inducts Sanger despite protests PHOENLX (AP) Despite pro-T tests from abortion opponents, the late founder of Planned Parenthood nas Deen mauciea into me Arizona-Hall of Fame.

Margaret Sanger was one of fivei? women inducted during ceremonies Saturday. Outside the Phoenix hotels where the ceremony was conducted, about 150 protesters carried signs that Sanger's induction made it the state "Hall of Shame." Sanger is accused oi naving Deen an aavocaie oi eugenics me Deuei that the human species can be im; proved through selective breeding. Critics have called her a racist and a bigot and have pointed to quotes attributed to Sanger in which she endorsed abortion. TICK' RESULTS PHOENLX (AP) There was no. winner of the $1 million jackpot lathe latest "Pick" game, Arizona Lottery officials said yesterday.

A computer check showed no, player correctly picked all six ning numbers, so the grand prize: will roll over to Wednesday's draw- ing. It might reach $1.5 million, tery officials said. oyy The winning numbers, chosen at( random during Saturday night's tel- evised drawing, were 5, 8, 10, 15, 16 and 21 with a bonus number of 30. u. Lottery officials said one player correctly picked five of the numbers plus the bonus number to win $47,038 They said 78 players correctly i picked five numbers to win $723 apiece while 2,498 players had four correct numbers win $37 each.

lice officer, who also was riding a motorcycle, Lawrence said, It was that officer who found Wesson lying on the pavement and radioed for help, Lawrence said. Investigators have few leads. So Adriana Weston, a bus driver in the Tucson Unified School District, and her friends are circulating about 200 fliers in the city's southeast and central areas hoping that someone with information comes forth or telephones 88-CRIME, the Pima County Attorney's tipster line. She said she wants answers. Paul, the oldest of her three children, "almost didn't live and there's this per Music Continued from Page IB Had a Farm and other songs.

His singing helped him forge friendships in an unfamiliar culture, said Gwyneth Ungerman, who helps teach music and organize related activities at Tortolita "With his background, he was a little bit of an outsider to a lot of the kids, but the music pulled him in," Ungerman said. "It was a real avenue to socialization." Schadt began his singing career in "elementary school, joining his school's choir and singing with the all-soprano Tucson Boys Choir until Beddome said the SRP encourages anyone with a water-rights claim on the San Pedro to take a hard look at the hydrology survey when it is released later this month. He said the Salt River Project will be introducing a number of objections to the way water use has been characterized in the hydrology report for the San Pedro Basin. Among the concerns is the lack of a mechanism for accounting for ground water pumping and its effect on surface flow. Beddome said the position of the Salt River Project will be to support the maximum historical water use by a claimant as the level of water use for that entity.

The company is high on a test he given early Pacheco said the library, at a the highway He said his "Our parents made us believe Pacheco. The Pachecos and in 1941 fields of Colorado chid, Manuel, was Midtown Firefighters fires in A fire that damages to a Street, Tucson said. Firefighters living room, bringing said. The second home in the but was in damages, The houses Newburn not know how or Nogales against such projects also may have hindered development Despite the lack of projects, city officials insist housing is a priority. "I've told Mr.

Sires to go after all the state and federal money we could acquire to get housing," Mayor Mary Macias says. One solution may be joint efforts between public and private sources. Two developers say they are scavenging scarce public funds to create housing developments. Aries hopes to build a publicly funded 70-unit housing project for low- to moderate-income families on city lands. Another developer, Nogales Housing Associates of has partial city approval for a 40-unit federally subsidized apartment complex for low- to moderate-income residents.

Both developers hope to begin construction next year. Continued from Page IB service. Some here also criticize the city for pushing retail development at the expense of less profitable housing projects. Kay Kline, the Nogales-area representative for the federal Housing and Urban Development, says the city has rarely applied for HUD grants for low-income housing, a situation she calls "unusual." But Abe Rochlin, Nogales Housing Authority executive director for 25 years until 1991, says HUD showed little interest in the city. "Every year we'd be invited to submit applications, and every year it was turned down," he says.

"We're lucky to have what we have." He says local sentiment his voice changed. He has since taken part in two all-state choirs during summer camps at Northern Arizona University, as well as in the ensemble choir at Tortolita, near Arthur Pack Regional Park. He learned of the Perlman contest from a woman who heard him sing at his bar mitzvah in May. He went to the offices of Tucson radio station KOOL-FM the next day and recorded a three song demo tape that he entered into the contest "He's got a very well-developed voice and a lot of drive," Ungerman said. "If he puts a lot of time into his voice, and keeps working on it it could take him someplace." That place, Schadt says, is the Top 40 charts.

also taking the position that pumping within the river basin should be considered as pumping of surface water. He said Arizona law recognizes the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation, or "first in time, first in right" But the federal government claims "reserve" rights for the future water needs of the Indian reservations, Fort Huachuca, and the Bureau of Land Management The Salt River Project serves the area of the Salt River Project Reservoir District in metropolitan Phoenix. The Salt River and Verde River watersheds north and east of Phoenix are the source of water for the utility, Beddome said. 8,000 existing claims on the 30,000 acre-feet flow of water. The claimants include the city of Sierra Vista, Fort Huachuca, Huachuca City, Benson, mining interests, and 34 separate irrigation districts and water companies.

Greg Davies, a hydrologist with the Department of Water Resources, said people with a claim to water rights that are not included in the hydrology report, or who disagree with the way their claim is characterized in the document must state their positions during the 180-day comment period that begins Nov. 6. "Once the comment period is completed, things will be pretty much set in concrete," he said. San Pedro Continued from Page IB for a determination of water rights to the San Pedro. The Little Colorado, the San Pedro, the Salt and the Verde rivers are tributaries of the Gila River Basin.

The San Pedro River begins south of the border, north of Cananea, Sonora, and flows through Cochise, Pima and Pinal counties to Winkelman, where it flows into the Gila River. When the state set deadlines for establishing claims In 1979, several Indian communities including the Gila River Tribe and White Mountain and San Carlos Apache tribes filed a federal suit challenging Arizona's right to determine Indian water rights. In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the state courts do have jurisdiction to determine Indian water rights, but maintained the determinations must be made according to federal law. The water-rights adjudication is now pending in Phoenix before Judge Stanley Goodfarb of Maricopa County Superior Court The Arizona Department of Water Resources has completed a hydrolo-gical survey of water use in the San Pedro River that includes about.