Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona (2024)

February 6, 1970

Publication:

Tucson Citizeni

Location:

Tucson, Arizona

Issue Date:

Friday, February 6, 1970

Page:

1

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Brito III A CENTENNIAL VOLUME NO 32 TUCSON ARIZONA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4 1770 50 PAGES TEN CENTS A recent amendment to the National Banking Act approved by (' and siqn-d mto law Dec 24 by President Nixon alley National and First Na-tional are statewide banks and First American are Phoenix-area banks The new taxation will bring the national banks Into line with the tax structure of state-chartered banks in Arizona national banks have really been on a gravy said Trasente who explained that collectors have notified the four banks that they are going to have to pay more taxes Transente said officials of the banks balked when first asked to sign tax forms i subject to the three percent tax on leases and rentals Trasente said an opinion by Attorney General Gary Nelson and his own interpretation of the' law Indicates no state legislative action is required I want to get this question settled while the legislature Is in session In case a bill is needed" said Trasente House Majority whip Tim Bar-row R-Maricopa has been working with Transente certainly going to make-the national banks more com-petitive" said Barrow He noted that Valley Bank and some of the others own Urge amounts of property which they lease to all types of businesses Jets Vessel ing an Israeli soldier The spokesman said a United Nations observation post also was hit An Israeli spokesman said that from 6 am to 3 pm Israeli raiders struck Egyptian bunkers artillery positions antiaircraft sites and supply depots and that all planes returned safely While the attacks oq the canal were under way Israel struck an ammunition store at Ga-nadla 200 miles south of Cairo and a military camp at Tel El Kablr 44 miles northeast of Cairo on the rnliin road linking Cairo and Ismailia Inside Citizen By DKK CASEY Utlze a Political riter PHOENIX Four national banks in Arizona will begin paying millions of dollar this year in taxes from which they heretofore have been exempted Beginning next week Valley National Bank First National Bank Con mental National Bank and First American National Bank will be forced to comply with state sales and use taxes lease taxes and personal properly taxes Neal Trasente director of the Sales and I'se Tax Division of the Arizona Tax Commission told the Tucson Dally Citizen nrv revenue to the state could be in excess of million "and probably will be high- Counties throughout the state will benefit from the provision rc-'t ring the ban'is to start paying personal property taxes according to Arlo Woolery director of the State Department of "This will amount to very substantial sums" Woolery said The revenue boon Is due to a Few Clouds Bring Rain To Area Cold morning Warm by noon blisters Will be here soon -0 No Little change is forecast for Tucson weather today The weatherman expects generally fair skies with some clouds and no chance for rain This low was 42 degrees high 71 High tomorrow will be 67 to 72 The overnight low will be 40 to 45 The latest pollen count taken tVeHnesday was Ithus lancia 1 (The count is taken in the vicinity of Tucson Blvd and may vary in other areas) The temperature at 2 pm was 68 humidity 22 per cent Full Wathr Rtsorl Paa II WAR ESCALATED Ail Attack By Israeli Sinks Egyptian Navy I don't hear from them by today I intend to send men back with the forms and If they still refuse I ill obtain a court order and force them to comply" he said Trasente said it Is difficult to determine exactly how much new taxes the banks will pay They will be subject to the 3 per cent sales tax on items purchased In Arizona and the 3 per cent use tax on items bought outside of the state Decently Trasente noted one of the banks bought a 31 million computer on which no tax was paid In addition to the sales and use levies the banks will now be the minelayer was sunk around 4 pm (9 am EST) capping seven hours of air strikes against land targets in Egypt The raids had started with attacks against Egyptian military targets along the northern sector of the canal and then "moved southward" Ike a creeping artillery barrage Egyptian planes also were active and an Israeli spokesman said Egypt sent four jets on low level attacks against Israeli positions along the canal wound- Blasts Hurt 16 Persons In Texas BIG SPRING Tex (UPI) -Two mystery explosions set vats of gasoline afire and spewed burning fuel and shattered glass through the Cosden Oil Chemical Co refinery today injuring at least 16 persons The blasts rocked the small West Texas town blowing windows out of nearby buildings along a busy interstate highway Big Spring Fire Marshal A Meador said the explosions set the fuel on fire spreading the burning gas through the plant He said the flames were con-troled but were allowed to "burn down and shut off" The refinery fire burned out of control for half an hour after the explosions at 10:30 am 4 Cltlim Chef ky Ciry Gtrnor Our Time ldent of Magma Copper Co says much of this smoke is vapor from water used in smelting The smelters may or may not be doing great damage to air but the motto Air has become a battle cry in the Old Pueblo Signs Of Smelter haters in Tucson claim smoky plumes from the stacks at San Manuel and elsewhere cut visibility in Tucson and add to the sulfur oxide in the air Sulfur oxide levels did drop sharply here during the mine strike of 1967-68 but were never very high to begin with Wesley Goss pres- Smoke Screen Hides Smog Cure By United Press Internatloial Israeli jets bombed and sank a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Red Sea today hours after Egyptian frogmen reported they sank two Israeli ships in the Israeli harbor of Elat an Israeli military spokesman reported in Tel Aviv The conflict between Israel and Egypt escalated sharply In the air too Israeli jets bombed and strafed Egyptian Suez Canal positions for six hours in a massive attack and sent two bombing attacks deep inside Egypt Egyptian jets struck the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula The Isareli spokesman said the Egyptian minelayer was caught cruising off Hughada Egypt's main naval base on the Red Sea He identified it as a Soviet-made -T-43 type minelayer The spokesman said he had no information on Egyptian attempts to rescue survivors from the minelayer which was equipped with two gun turrets with 37 millimeter cannon ma-chineguns minelaying equipment and antisubmarine devices A minelayer normally would have a crew of about 80 men Hughada lies on the eastern shore of the Red Sea close to the mouth of the Gulf of Suez Hughada has army camps and a military airfield is nearby It is just cast of Shadwan Island which Israeli commandos occupied for 32 hours last month and seized a radar station The military spokesman said COMING Priests Tell By LAWSON ALLEN Citizen Staff Writer Mexican-American priests concluded their five-day meeting here with a thinly veiled warning to the Roman Catholic hierarchy now jet-propelled We are no more a slow freight train The Catholic church can get on or get out of tho coming read the Rev Ralph Ruiz of San Antonio president of Priests Associated for Religious Education and Social Rights (PADRES) Their message was made public today nearly 24 hours after the priests broke up their last official session Leaders of the Church To Progress 7 Verbal BV DAVID HOYT Citizen Staff Writer Three years and three months ago the Pima County Board of Supervisors conceded that there was a smog battle to be won in Tucson Today the whole air pollution issue is shrouded in an angry verbal screen of smoke about what should be done by whom and when about what Meanwhile the city is haunted by an almost daily yellow haze and the phones at Air Pollution Control ring constantly Tucson is waging a war on dust smoke and fumes known' as sulfur oxides with most of the furor raging about whether or not immediate controls should be placed on the smelting operation nin by Phelps Dodge Corp at Ajo a town 135 miles west of here The smog fighters such as the Group Against Smelter Pollution (GASP) wants to crack down on the smelters right away while County Board Chairman Thomas Jay wants to give helps Dodge five years to clean up Its sulfur oxide discharge' But licking the Smelter-produced sulfur oxide going to win the war against smog In Tucson and probably even the key to winning A glance at the charts on sul fur oxide readings taken in downtown Tucson for the past four years indicates that solid particles in the air not sulfur oxides is a bigger problem worst month in the past 50 never showed a sulfur oxide level that climbed as high as the lowest level suggested as a desirable standard by the federal government But the record on suspended particulate matter (dust Pollution Section On Pages 10 and 11 of Tucson Dally Citizen are a special section of news stoics and photographs on pollution in Pima County and what public officials industry and others are trying to do about the smog problems A related editorial Is on Page and other solid matter in the air) is dismal There is seldom a month when the level of visible and Invisible airborne gilt higher than it should be and a crackdown on dust is mentioned as a next step by many of those concerned with pollution 1 "Dust control is extremely important" says Gordon Lucpke chairman of the Pima County Air Pollution Control Advisory Coun pounds of aldehydes Enough to make most of us sick But Pima County go after Detroit automakers all by itself the state of Arizona has so ruled So Tucson have to wait for the state government to borrow some of courage in dealing with the auto industry or wait for the federal government to get tough on pollution control devices' The state will probably also have to handle the smeltrt' pollution if Jay has his way He condemns any plan that would punish pollution at Ajo while allowing smelters closer to Tucson but not in the county to continue operations scot-free 1 If Jay who wields plenty of weight on the three-mail county board has his way the visors will not be the ones to close the mines and Bownd's group will have to go to court or to' the Arizona Legislature to get the job done 1 BMy father was a mining company employe I was a mining company employe and my son is a mining company employe says Jay "Maybe 1 am partial" But the 19-year board veteran defends the proposal that the smelters have a right to stay open citing total mining tax contributions that pour 339 cil "We have Just got to be more definitive about John Bownds GASP co-chairman agrees saying "We are going to have to pave some' roads around here one day We are exceeding the state standards for particulate matter in the air" Of equal concern is the contribution to filthy air Jay and Edwin Montgomery-pollution control district engineer are far more concerned with the auto pollution problem than any other Each day according to local records the motor vehicle gasoline burned in Tucson is converted into 700000 pounds of carbon monoxide And the carbon monoxide a deadly poison comes spewing out of exhaust pipes and into the atmosphere There it mixes with the dust the sulfur oxides and other gases But just what it does other than decay into carbon dioxide experts sure They are certain that its presence cannot be any good for anyone Motor vehicles also account for the following daily contribu- tion of obnoxious substance to skies: 144000 pounds of hydrocarbons 31000 pounds of nitrogen oxides 2500 pounds of sulfur oxides 3000 pounds of particulate matter and 1102 lion annually into Pima County coffers He also points out that there is no evidence that the fumes from distant Ajo ever reach Tucson And on this point scientific evidence expert opinion and even University of Arizona mathematician Bownds agree with him In fact tests run here show that all the smelters put together nearly the threat presented by automobile emissions or dust So why pick on the smelters? "Because they are the most spectacular ventures Luepke 1 group whose emission and air quality standards were adopted in December 1968 by the supervisors faces some of its toughest hours Feb 17 when it will have to take some action on applying those standards to the smelter at Ajo The council met in closed session last December with Phelps Dodge representatives and learned that the company is exploring the possibility of con verting its sulfur dioxide gasses Into elemental sulfur This was the first indication that P-D was seriously considering any control route other than the already-proven process Continued Page 16 ganizing Committee in the grape fields of California and the truck farms of South Texas and supports the boycott of California grapes The priests called on the National Council of Catholic Bishops "to pressure the Department of Health Education and Welfare' to release and Implement HfeW investigational reports in the In a resolution addressed to a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee PADRES urged passage of legislation permitting aliens to take the naturalization examination In their native language They also urged the bishops to use their influence with the Pope to have Spanish-speaking bishops appointed to serve Spanish-speaking congregations group worked last night after the official meetings ended Father Ruiz today quoted from a letter from an undisclosed souijL'e He said that although its views were not included explicitly in PADRES policy statements "the letter reflects reality" "The Mexicano is moving ahead fast We must move fast too to catch uj) with him" he added I To overtake the progressing Spanish-speaking Catholics PADRES adopted approximate-i ly 40 resolutions not all of which dealt strictly with clerical matters It gave It "unequivocal support" to the organization efforts of the United Farm Workers Or a3 i 4 i.

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