Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 5

FIRST EDITION pi fjftg jktizsma Bails to Tucson, Monday, October 14, 1991 Accent 3B IIIIIIIIHIIMIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIW JA i i Xt iA: -r-JK ft! if 4 I fil i I Housing woes reflect city's growing pains Nogales 'in dire need of affordable' rentals By Laura Brooks The Arizona Daily Star NOGALES, Ariz. Ask City Administrator Earl Sires how hard it is to find housing here, and he'll tell you a five-minute story about searching for weeks for his family's home. He's one of the lucky ones. He found a place. Planning and Zoning Director Mark Rowden never did.

He had to settle 20 miles away in Patagonia. Nogales has fewer than 25,000 residents, but it has big city problems. This humming border community offers booming retail development, big-city shopping and even a double dose of McDonald's for fast-food fans. i But ask about a place to live and real estate agents roll their eyes. And then plunk you down on a waiting list as long and slow-moving as a border crossing queue at rush hour.

"The most critical thing limiting Nogales growth is the lack of available housing," says Philip Aries, a real estate broker planning a 70-unit housing project in Nogales. Consider this: Nogales has only one modern apartment complex Las Terrazas on Patagonia Highway with the closest similar development 10 miles away in Rio During winter months, city ranks swell with produce distributors, but rental turnovers are almost nil. And few homes are up for rent. About 30 percent of medical and educational workers in the city commute from Tucson because they can't find affordable housing, according to Rowden. During the past eight years, the Nogales Housing Authority has built six units of low-income housing.

Partly as a result, 156 poor families are on a waiting list for housing. Real estate broker Esther Morales: "We're in dire need of affordable rental housing." City officials and real estate agents point to several factors for the crunch. Developers may be spooked by low-rent structures, high development costs because of hilly topography and uncertainty about a city known as a sleepy way station. "People are just finding out about this border town," says Loraine Burns, a Realtor. "It takes a while for people to trust the area." She says developers are turned off by population figures for Santa Cruz County, Arizona's smallest county.

Troubles with Nogales Wash haven't helped either. Sewerage system difficulties caused the state to impose a temporary freeze on sewer hookups. Developers can present plans, but they must leave off the sewerage pipe until the moratorium is lifted, Sires says. Builders also complain that not enough plots have sewer See NOGALES, Page2B A.E. Aralza, The Arizona Daily Star Jason Schadt, singing at home, is one of two winners of a national award for outstanding accomplishments in music by disabled youth 8th-grader wins music award for disabled for the first time, he came up, smiled and said, 'Novo zapatos, por favor' new shoes, please," Wendy Schadt said.

"His were full of holes." His new footwear was equipped with a large, platform-type sole on one shoe to compensate for his stunted right leg. He wore similar shoes on that foot until last summer, when doctors in Phoenix removed the pins from that leg and shortened his left leg. He now uses conventional shoes, walking with a limp he hopes will disappear as he adjusts to his shortened leg. When he came to the United States, Jason Schadt also had to adjust to an entirely new language and culture. His new mother, herself bound to a wheelchair, taught him how to speak English, playing on his love for music by teaching him to sing "Old MacDonald See MUSIC, Page 2B By Joe Salkowski The Arizona Daily Star Though disabled, Jason Schadt doesn't stand out among the students in the seventh- and eighth-grade choir class at Tortolita Middle School.

That is, until he begins to sing. His strong baritone, which dominates the harmonic swell of his classmates' voices, made him one of only two nationwide winners of the Itzhak Perlman Award for outstanding accomplishments in music by disabled youth. Schadt, 15, will fly to Washington, D.C., to accept a $5,000 scholarship and perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after a concert by the famed violinist Saturday night. He is the first Arizonan to win the award, said Barbara Yorkis, director of Very Special Arts Arizona. The national branch of that group, a non-profit company that provides performance opportunities for dis abled people, sponsored the award with the Panasonic Co.

"I've loved music all my life, and I've always loved to sing," said Schadt, an eighth-grader. "But I still can't believe I won it's like a dream." He was born in Brazil and lived there with his natural parents until he was about 4 years old, when his parents broke his right leg during an argument and abandoned him on the streets of Sao Paulo. A local boy discovered him and carried him to a hospital, where doctors put pins in his leg to hold it together. But the surgery was performed incorrectly, and prevented his right leg from developing properly. He was sent to an orphanage in the city and lived there until 1983, when he was adopted by Tucson resident Wendy Schadt and her husband at the time, John.

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ii.m I Mystery driver changes life of Tucson teen By Carmen Duarte The Arizona Dally Star Motorcyclist Paul Weston life was changed forever three week ago by a driver that forced him off the road. Weston, a 17-year-old student at ABC Technical Trade Schools, was riding his Honda motorcycle home after a day of classes when a car cut in front of him and ran him off the road. Weston, who was traveling east on Aviation Highway, avoided hitting the car but swerved toward the curb and slammed into a street sign near Golf Links Road. The accident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. on SepL 25.

He was taken to Tucson Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition for three days. A deep slash ran from his pelvic area to his back that required about 100 stitches and staples to close, said Adriana Weston, his mother. Paul also suffered a collapsed See MYSTERY, Page 28 She talked him into accepting a new challenge: to unseat Sen. John McCain, in 1992. Spangrud is a soft-spoken, friendly 56-year-old who is being embraced by leaders of the Democratic Party.

Sen. Dennis DeConcini, says Spangrud is "a very intelligent guy" who would be "an excellent candidate." Lorraine W. Frank, an Arizonan and member of the Democratic National Committee, calls Spangrud "a very attractive candidate." Among other things, she said, Spangrud kept up his Arizona residency throughout his military career. Both cautioned, however, that they won't endorse Spangrud officially until they see whether there is a primary. Several other Democrats, including Maricopa County Supervisor Carole Carpenter, are also talking about a U.S.

Senate race. Spangrud says he's still building See SPANGRUD, Page2B By Steve Melssner The Arizona Dally Star Truman Spangrud is an ex-combat pilot and retired three-star general who has a new mission the U.S. Senate. He flew 81 combat missions during the Vietnam War, 51 of them over North Vietnam. He also commanded a B-47 bomber full of nuclear weapons for the Strategic Air Command.

He ran the Air Force's weapons programs for the Pentagon, and played a key role in development of the AW ACS airborne radar system and the Stealth bomber, two weapons that were vital in the war against Iraq. His credentials make him sound like a conservative and he is. "You can't go through 32 years of the military without being conservative," he says. But he is not a Republican. Spangrud is a Democrat.

His sister is Marcia Weeks, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission. BenJIe Sander, The Arizona Daily Star Truman Spangrud with his 1937 Packard Roadster, which he plans to use for campaign swings Water-rights precedents to spring from San Pedro River Verde River A Phoenix slry yjgy NWlnkelraaa BensoaV5 Most government offices will be closed today All state, federal, Pima County and South Tucson offices will be closed today for Columbus Day. Banks and most post offices also will be closed. There will be no regular mail delivery. Express Mail will be delivered and retail post offices, such as those in grocery stores, will be open.

Public schools and city offices, with the exception of the City Court, will be open, as will state emissions testing stations. The state office for emissions waivers, at 4040 E. 29th St, will be closed. Trash collection for both city and Waste Management customers will follow regular schedules, and Sun Tran buses also will follow their normal weekday said the county has contracted with the University of Arizona for a hydrology study of the lower San Pedro Basin in an effort to provide a basis for future water management of the river and ensure future growth in the area. "If this adjudication goes through and the court says they (Indians) have a right to twice as much surface flow as we have, that will change everything," he said.

The Gila River adjudication process began in 1974, when the Salt River Project petitioned the state Land Department to determine conflicting water rights on the Salt and Verde rivers that form the Salt River Project's reservoir district In 1978, Phelps Dodge Corp. filed a similar request related to water rights on the Little Colorado River, and the mining firm Asarco asked See WATER, Page2B ual users," Beddome said. "As the first watershed in the Gila River adjudication, the San Pedro will set precedents for future water-rights determinations. To ensure consistency in the adjudication process, SRP is requesting and analyzing information from some claimants." He said the White Mountain and San Carlos Apache tribes and the Gila River Tribe are claiming more than 2 million acre-feet of water from the Gila River and its tributaries, more than three times the total surface flows for the combined watersheds. Cochise County Supervisor Ann English questioned the Indian communities' need for the water, arguing that they are not farming and have not historically been farmers.

"The bottom line is they don't want to farm, they just want the value of the water," she said. Board Chairman Gene Manring By Ignacio Ibarra The Arizona Dally Star BISBEE The San Pedro River will set precedents for the handling of water-rights issues over the next 20 years in Arizona, Salt River Project officials say. Officials with the Phoenix-area water and power utility were in Cochise County on a two-day visit last week to notify local government officials that the utility will be watching closely the progress of the Gila River Basin case now under way In Maricopa County Superior Court Larry Beddome, principal water-rights specialist for the Salt River Project, said the water district's involvement is Intended to ensure court rulings in the San Pedro watershed are consistent with current water-rights law. "Our objective is to seek clarification of water uses in the San Pedro area, not to take water from individ- Judy Margolls, The Arizona Daily Star The San Pedro River flows to Wlnkelman and Into the Gila River.