Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 1

50 One dollar in Mexico SERVING TUCSON SINCE 1877 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001 lit i 2000 CENSUS RESULTS 1 -1 aricopa's growth in outpacing Pima's The first 2000 census figures for Arizona, released yesterday, show two major trends: The Phoenix area is increasing its dominance of the state's population, and growth among Hispanics is far surpassing state growth as a whole. ARIZONA DAILY STAR Phoenix and its neighbors will snag a bigger chunk of state and federal revenues and increase their clout in the Legislature and Congress, courtesy of blistering growth recorded by the U.S. Census. Arizona's population ballooned 40 percent in a decade to 5,130,632, according to figures released yesterday from the 2000 census. Most of the increase came in Maricopa County, which added nearly a million residents in the '90s.

In the Tucson area, where Pima County's relatively tame 26.5 percent growth rate added 176,866 residents, some say they are unconcerned with the notion that 2000 1 I Fi Lung cancer Mling women at record rate 1 Pockets of influence The biggest single population shift during the 1990s was a 2 percent rise in Maricopa County's share of the population and a nearly 2 percent fall in Pima's. This chart shows the distribution of Arizona's total population by county. SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau Graphic by David Schkwser Staff Hispanic growth Arizona growth in the Hispanic population far outpaces Hispanic growth nationally. The chart shows the percentage growth in Hispanic population from 1990 -2000.

88 53 feive.iJi! Jbiiawi' feasstii fewSMiJE1 United Arizona Pima Tucson States County By Carta McClaln ARIZONA DAILY STAR Though smoking may be losing favor across the country, Arizona women are dying of lung cancer at the highest rates ever seen, a new state report says. Lung cancer death rates have almost tripled among state women in the past 30 years, the report shows. Meanwhile, Arizona deaths from breast cancer declined significantly during the past decade, making it far less a threat than lung cancer. Nearly twice as many Arizona women died of lung cancer 1,102 than of breast cancer 602 in 1999, the most recent year with final records. That bad-news, good-news health profile emerged from a report on the top two female cancer killers, released yesterday by the Arizona Department of Health Services.

Apache W4 1.4 Navajo LaPaziMi.l21- -4 on, i 0.4LlXL iZ. Creenlei Graham trt1 0.7 is Santa Cruz 0.7 Hispanic total population growth in Pima two-thirds of the growth in the Tucson Population increase, 1990 2000 f' Non hispanici 25.CC3 extend their reach throughout Pima County and Southern Arizona, and even to Phoenix. KCMT has an initial signal that allows it to broadcast throughout the greater Tucson metropolitan area to Oro Valley and Green Valley. Cooley said he hopes to have a signal within six months after getting the proper FCC approvals. Until Friday, KIIM was the only country station on the SEE COUNTRY A13 ARIZONA THE WEST A4 T7rr j' Hispanic 55,273 7 Other population More inside: comparisons i suburbs i pima'S hispan- tucson short-name 2000POP CHANGE GROW: Pima IC POPULATION: FALL The city United States 281,421,906 13.2 County's popula- More than one in budget may fall $9 Arizona 5,130,632 39.9 tion grew 26.5 per- four Pima County million short Cochise Co.

117,755 20.6 cent in the past residents is His- because the census Marana 13,556 519.8 decade as new resi- panic, an increase will redirect mon-PimaCo. 843,746 26.5 dents flocked to the of 5 percent since ey to areas that are -Pinal Co. 179,727 54.4 suburbs and the the 1990 census. growing faster. Tucson 486,699 20 Hispanic popula-SantaCruzCo.

38,381 29.3 tion swelled. South Tucson 5,490 .07 Oro Valley 29,700 345.2 Two pages of coverage, A8-9 Threat at Tucson High 1990 reenlee 1.2 4 Graham iti I 0.7 Santa Cruz 0.8 Local growth: Plainly Hispanics accounted for nearly half County during the 1990s and more city of Tucson. Pima County Population increase, 1990- 2000 SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau toss its Stetson into the ring of the nation's highly competitive and most popular music format for radio. Construction crews were installing the antennas for KCMT 101.9 FM "Country Music Tucson" yesterday, and the station should be up and running within two weeks, said Jim Cooley, Lotus' general manager.

The new station will operate under a weaker signal than its competition KIIM FM 99.5 and 92.9 FM Coyote Country. They both run signals that IN TODAY'S STAR AVeather TODAY'S FORECAST Wonderful weather all week. High82Low51 Yesterday: High 78 Low 49 For complete weather information, see the Weather Report page on back of Sports. www.azstamet.comweather A PlJUTZER NEWSPAPBI Vol. 160, No.

87 J7 -r- Apache jjt-, 1.7 1uLL 3 1 1 fa i 4 ia i at jjpl I Dm ft a Kon- Hispanic 84,316 .1 S2.5-3 the than 1 "jiiii. size equals power. "People go where they want to go. The money is distributed propor-tionally," said Ken mm Outwater, a retired petroleum engineer who lives in SaddleBrooke, just north of the Pima County line. "You want Tucson to' grow faster with people who contribute to Tucson, but you're running out of water.

Why? More people," said Outwater, who was waiting to catch a shuttle van yesterday at Tucson International Airport, returning from a Colorado skiing vacation. Fiscal fallout from the census will be measured soon as cities and counties prepare budgets for next year. Tucson City Manager Jim Keene took a look at the numbers yesterday and immediately warned the City Council about a projected $9 million hit in shared revenues. But the money losses and the diminution of Tucson's clout were expected. And the state's overall growth will give Arizona more power in Washington, specifically two more congressional seats.

SEE CENSUS A8 Campaign ref oraiers celebrate for now By Joe Salkowskl ARIZONA DAILY STAR WASHINGTON In the tumultuous debate over campaign finance reform, clearing one potential pitfall only brings other, larger problems into view. Yesterday, Sen. John McCain and his allies fought "back one so-called compromise that would have capped "soft money" contributions to political parties rather than eliminating them entirely, as McCain and Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold have proposed. A loss on that issue would have shattered the fragile alliance of Democrats and maverick Republicans supporting the McCain-Feingold bUL But their victory only placed new emphasis on upcoming battles over a' pair of proposals backed by opponents of their bill "We're happy," said McCain, an Arizona Republican.

"But we believe that there are some very tough issues ahead." The first, a proposal to SEE CAMPAIGN A13 Country-music fans can rejoice Female cancer killers in Arizona: I Lung cancer is killing 31 women per 100,000 today, compared with 11.3 women per 100,000 in 1970. I Breast cancer is killing 19.2 women per 100,000 today, compared with 23.3 per 100,000 in 1988. I A total of 1,102 women died of lung cancer in 1999, while only 602 died of breast cancer. Arizona's disastrous lung cancer situation reflects what smoking is doing to women nationwide. Smoking-related female death rates have more than doubled in the United States during the same period, according to a report released simultaneously by the U.S.

sur- SEE LUNG CANCER A13 Jama S. Wood Staff attack. Police have made no arrests but are investigating. "This is just terrifying. I just don't feel safe leaving her here," said Kimberley Lopez, one of dozens of parents who went to the school at 400 N.

Second Ave. yesterday to meet with the principal. That was echoed by 15-year-old Raquel Gastelum, who believes the threat and resulting concern yesterday provided a glimpse into the fright such words can cause now that schoolyard massacres are no longer unthinkable. "With so many shootings that have happened in other states, how can you not worry," asked Gastelum, as she waited for a ride home halfway through the SEE TUCSON HIGHA13 Tucson to have 3 FM stations playing format By Cathalena E. Burch ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson country-music fans will have three options on the FM dial by early next month.

That's up from only one choice last week. Lotus Communications which owns KFMA 92.1 FM, KTKT AM 990 and KLPX 96.1 FM is the latest company to Eight of 30 students snowed up for an honors English class at Tucson High after someone threatened to "shoot the place up on Tuesday. News of threat spreads, creating fear, absences TucsonRegion Pizza Hut killers face prison regimentation that redefines "strict" By Hipolito R. Corella and L. Anne Newell ARIZONA DAILY STAR One student worried whether the color of her outfit would make her a gunman's target.

Another said she and her classmates picked places to hide in case a gunman burst into their classroom. The preparations many Tucson High Magnet School students described yesterday were motivated by threats discovered in reddish-brown lipstick on a bathroom stall last And they caused nearly 1,000 of the school's 2,400 students to stay home yesterday after news of the threats mushroomed from someone writing that they would "shoot the place up on Tuesday" to false rumors of a student hit list and a planned lunchtime BRIDGE E5 BUSINESS Dl-6 COMICS E4 DEAR ABBY E5 EDITORIALS B67 HOROSCOPE E5 LOTTERY A13 MOVIES E2 NEIGHBORS B3 PUZZLES CLASSIFIED OBITUARIES B4 SPORTS Cl-6 TELEVISION E5 On StarNet www.azstamet.com Health in focus: Colorectal cancer Risk factors, prevention, detection and treatment www.azstamet.comhealth.