South Tucson's El Independiente, 1980-11-14

              Large Dem
helps party
By KATHY KIRK WOOD
En Resumen: Sugieren 3 sacerdotes obispado
Translated By ALICIA PARAMO- ORTP,4A
El Consejo de Habla Hispana de Ia Diocesis de la
Iglesia Católica Romana de Tucson (Spanish
Speaking Council of the Roman Catholic Diocese)
recomendó tres posibles sucesores al obispo Francis J.
Green cuando esté se retire enl9Sl.
El consejo recomienda a Monseñor Charles A. Bast,
43, vicario de la comunidad; Monseñor Arsenio S.
Carrillo, 50, pastor de la catedral de San Agustin; y
el Reverendo Vicente López,38, vicario de habla
hispana.
Bast f ué el director de Catholic Charities en 1970.
South Tucson's
Democrats Luis A. Gonzales, Jesus
"Chuy" Higuera and Carmen F. Cajero
were swept into District 10 legislative
seats by a high turnout of Democratic
voters last week.
Senator Gonzales won his bid for a
second term with 50 percent of the vote,
despite strong campaigns from
Republican Irene Bice and Libertarian
Buck Crouch. Ms. Rice received 21 per-cent
of the vote and Crouch 20 percent.
"t had anticipated a horse race between
Rice and Crouch." said Gonzales, who
attributed the landslide victory to his
challengers' refusal to face crucial issues
such as Medicaid and health care.
Ms. Bice, 29, said election night that she
Tucson City Council
ends mutual aid pact.
By TOM NICHOI.S
The Tucson City Council voted Nov. Sto
terminate a 40-year-old mutual aid pact
with the South Tucson Police Department,
approving a 30-day "termination clause"
that will give South Tucson officials an
opportunity to appeal the decision.
South Tucson City Manager Richard E,
Kaffenberger arrived at the meeting late
and was unable to speak on the city's
behalf. However, he had previously in-dicated
that the termination of the mutual
aid pact would be of no consequence to
South Tucson.
As a result of the decision, no Tucson
police Units will cross into South Tucson to
By TOM NICHOLS
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ALICY N NXW.SYtcO
Three law enforcement agencies
belonging to a mutual assistance pact have
indicated they will continue to answer
calls for assistance in South Tucson
despite a decision by the city of Tucson to
terminate its agreement with the South
Tucson police and fire deportment.
However, at the request of Pima County
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the sheriff's
deportment is reviewing its participation
in the agreement because of a recent suit
filed by South Tucson againat the city of
Tucson.
"The sheriff has asked the legal staff to
take a look at the liability picture of the
department because of the Garcia Case,"
Tambien ha sido pastor asociado y administrador en
la Iglesia de Santo Cirilo de Alejandria; y ha servido
en la iglesia St. Agnes en Phoenix.
López, sacerdote Carmelita, ha estado trabajando
en la Diocesis de Tucson desde enero de 1979 como
vicario de habla hispana. El ha sido pastor y director
del Centro de Español en jouet, Ill.
Carrillo, originario de Tucson, ha sido pastor de la
iglesia de San Agustin desde 1962, El tambien ha
servido en la iglesia de la Sagrada Familia desde hace
cinco años y en la de la Inmaculada Concepción, en
Douglas, desde hace un año,
EI Independiente
turnout
inDist. 10
would not be discouraged if she lost. "I I
wanted him (Gonzales) to get out and work
a little, and he did," she said. "This is not
the end of Irene Bice. I'll be wherever the
action is."
Crouch, 32, is chairman of the Arizona
Libertarian.party and is working toward a
degree in nuclear engineering at the
University of Arizona. He was similarly
undiscouraged with the election, saying
the vote indicated people were receptive to
Libertarian ideas. "I think I will probably
run again for an office in this district," he
said.
Senator Gonzales said in his upcoming
term he pisos to target "redlining" in low-income
housing areas, which affects
District 10.
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perform backup duties. Termination of
the pact ends an agreement that is con-sidered
routine by most police jurisdic-tions
in Arizona.
Mayor Dan Eckstrom snd Kaffenberger
could not be reached for comment as to
whether South Tucson will respond to the
decision.
However, when asked earlier in the
month about the possible termination of
the agreement, Kaffenberger responded
by saying, "Good riddance to (Tucson
Mayor Lewis C.) Murphy, his arrogance
and his sense of superiority."
Kaffenberger noted that since his ap-pointment
in January 1979, the South
Tucson Police Department has been in-
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0aíu o! s-9cv a vnavvth ,,a4'f
for the sheriff's department.
The cayo 'svema xcim a 1)10% om). c$ine
effort in which a Tucson policeman was
accidentally shot and paralyzed by a south
Tucson police officer.
South Tucsoti City Attorney Robert L.
Murray charged the Tucson Police
Department with breach of contract for
failing toj, r.esond with properly trained
officers in that incident. -
The department is seeking to clarify
what possible liabilty it faces when called
upon for help by the South Tucson police or
any other agency in the agreement.
The review of the agreement and a
decision about whether to continue it will
be announced later in the month, Pettit
said.
The city is seeking to force Tucson to pay
Mientras no haya notificación, con respecto a la
cancelación del pacto de ayuda mutua existente entre
los departamentos de policia de Tucson y Sur
Tucson, el departameñto de Seguridad Publica
(Public Safety Departament) o patrulla de Caminos
(Highway Patrol) así como bi departamento de
policia de la Universidad de Arizona, deberá con-tinuar
proporcionando la ayuda necesaria hacia
otros cuerpos policiacos que la requieran,
El director y miembros del Departamento de
Seguridad Pública en Phoenix, efectuan una
revalidación dei proyecto de ayuda mutua viendo si
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UN A WARM NOVEMBER afternoon, Samantha Gradillas, 5, (right) and Laura Ruiz, 8,
both of East 25th Street, play house with a doll named Lupita and a 6-week-old chihuahua
named Chato. Photo By Alice Yamamoto
Agencies to continue service; sheriff will study liability
th sJ'.bPnvniión iii amages awarue'atd Cisvelfer sOitíhe left the termination of
Garcia.
"Cnsbot xm\e'sa'o, thin Stiorfil vs thin
law enforcement officer of the county and
is obligated to serve everyone residing
within the county. However, the depart-ment
"wants to be in the position to
examine each call for help on a case by
case basïs and to reserve any decision to
assist another police force with the
county." Pettit said.
The University of Arizona police will
continue to assist South Tucson under the
agreement if they are able, Police Chief
Keith Cuvelier said.
"Legally, as a member of the pact, we
will help another agency if they request
it," Cuvelier said. "The (U of A) police
department has no intention of making
movements to dipsolve the agreement."
'sso',ùil viol 'osan an n5Aect ni o9tmer aneas
where assistance agreements are in-volved.
"I doubt it would be a precedent to
disoolving agreements," he said.
The Department of Public Safety also
indicated that it will continue to honor the
pact but that it is re-evaluating the 10-
year-old agreement, said Ron Leitch, a
media relations officer.
The DPS director and legal staff in
Phoenix have been studying the poet to see
if it needs updating, Leitch said, adding,
"The current political atmosphere and
police problems are different from when
the pact was written," Leitch said.
The agreement was originally signed as
a response toton the civil unrest in Tucson
during the early 1970s, Pettit said.
Vol. V No.6
Published by the Journalism Department of The University of Arizona
November 14. 1980