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2-ARI20NA DAILY SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Friday, June 25, 1999 $2.1 million bid wins Powell property Paul Sweitzer Daily Sun Columnist News from Page BY TODD GLASENAPP Sun Correspondent PAGE A Flagstaff developer bought the rights to the Greene-haven community near Page Thursday for more than $2.1 million. John Bowmans winning bid will give him the 450-acre mixed-use development when paperwork closes July 23. He outbid two others at a no-minimum auction at the home of Evelyn Greene, widow of original developer A.H. Bill Greene. It was an emotional day for the Greene family, which clustered in the entryway while the National Auction Group, ending more than 25 years of family ownership.

"I definitely could see the emotions in looking at the Greene family and realize they were going through a lot of agony, Bowman said. Its been a part and will always be a part of them. 1 wel that. Bowman said he began visiting Lake Powell nearly 30 years ago from his home in Colorado, entering at Halls Crossing. Since moving to Arizona, he has maintained a houseboat at Wahweap Marina.

He said he doesnt consider himself a sophisticated bidder and had never bought a property of the size of Greenehaven. He said he approached the bidding with care. I just kind of looked around and saw how the game was being played, read peoples faces and just took it from there, he said. But I had reached the limit at that number I was going to bid. Earlier, Darrell Christiansen of Delta, Utah, won the bidding for a framed Gary Ladd photograph for $300.

The money will be donated to Another Way, a local agency that addresses domestic violence. come them on the property and to take part in anything that they would wish to do so. Bowman, 62, maintains homes in Flagstaff and Scottsdale. He said he looked at Greenehaven six or seven years ago, saw the auction notice in a Phoenix newspaper and decided to take another run at it. He said he has no immediate plans for development.

Much of the propertys appeal is an undeveloped section of about 250 acres near Lake Powell that is zoned for residential and commercial use. Greenehaven is eight miles north of Page. Bidding began at $1.1 million and proceeded to $1,875 million before a break. When bidding resumed, City View Properties of Glendale offered $1,995 million. Bowman followed with $2,010,000.

The bid was not challenged. A 7.5 percent auctioneers fee Greene family members expressed mixed emotions after auctioneer Eddie Haynes banged his gavel. 1 The only way I feel right now is a little sad, nostalgic feeling, Evelyn Greene said. "But thats OK. Thats life and I thought they did a great job.

Shes sad because Dad isnt here, said her daughter, Judy White of Tempe. We would like for him to have been here today. Family members tried to sell the property last year but couldnt find buyers with sufficient funds. They turned to the Alabama-based National Auction Group, sellers of about 60 properties a year in the $2 to $3 million price range. It went well, White said.

Everything was handled smoothly. Its such a beautiful property. It needs to be just added to and expanded on. Well all be happy with State wants parental consent law reinstated By PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer PHOENIX Several months after dropping its defense of another Arizona abortion law, the state wants a federal appeals court to reinstate a requirement that minors get permission from a parent or judge before getting an abortion. The request filed Wednesday asks the full 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals to review the June 9 ruling by a three-judge court panel, which upheld a Tucson federal judges decision to block enforcement of the law. The three-judge panel said the law was unconstitutionally vague because it has no time limit by which a judge must decide about an abortion for a minor who contends she cannot consult a parent or guardian to get permission. The latest appeal comes 3 12 months after the Attorney Generals Office decided not to appeal a federal judges ruling striking down an Arizona abortion law dealing with a type of late-term abortions. The states appeal defending the parental consent, said theJJ.S. Supreme Court in 1990 upheld a similar judicial bypass provision in a Minnesota law and that federal courts should presume that Arizona judges will implement the law in a Jake BaconArizona Daily Sun Verna Fischer started work Monday as Coconino Countys new Director of Community Services.

Shes shown above outside her office in the County Health Building on King Street in east Flagstaff. Community Services chief hired Verna Fischer held similar post in California pushes the total price to $2,160,000. Certified checks of $100,000 were posted by six prospective bidders, including Bob Schwartz of Page. Schwartzs representatives, Erwin "Jim Gloss and Barry Costello, did not participate in the bidding. If City View had won the property, manager Jeff Blandford said his group would have surveyed neighbors before proceeding.

Sales activity and promotion would likely have become a focal point of activity, he said. The property was appraised last year for estate purposes, following the death of Bill Greene to complications of diabetes. The appraised value was not disclosed. er observed. The new director will be supervising a staff of 66 employees.

The department also relies on the assistance of volunteers and interns working in a variety of programs. It has other service centers in Williams, Page and Sedona. They are all supervised out of this main facility, Fischer said. Being director will be a big job. In Eureka, Fischer managed administrative functions dealing with finances, human resources, risk management, information and referral.

She also supervised the Food Stamp Distribution Center and developed low-income rental housing. Fischers have three children; a son, 20, who will be attending the University of Arizona; and two daughters, 16 and 14, who "will be students at Sinagua High School. I am truly enjoying the climate change, Fischer added. Its sunny and dry here. Eureka is dreary and wet.

standing felony warrant for Garners arrest issued out of Flagstaff Justice court. The warrant was issued for dangerous drug-related charges. Gamer was booked in Coconino County Jail for the warrant, shoplifting and possession of drug paraphernalia. No big winners PHOENIX (AP) The winning numbers in Thursday nights drawing of the Arizona Lotterys Fantasy 5 game were: 1-6-7-14-26. Since no one guessed all five, no one wins $50,000 in this drawing, but there were nine tickets paying $500 each for having four of the numbers and 570 paying $5 each for having three, the lottery reported later.

Committee Member. Survivors include: his wife, Ann Pollock; a son, Guy Raymond Householder III; two stepsons, Nick King and Justin King; and a sister, Jennifer Haston. He was preceded in death by a brother, Hal Householder. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 27, 1999, at the Flagstaff Masonic Temple, 107 E.

Birch. Contributions may be made to Flagstaff Masonic Lodge No. 7. The checks tin the I checkbook wasnt quite legal in the summer of 1952, but close was good enough for the i old man. It was time to go to work, time to learn it wasnt all on the silver platter.

I was home from St. Mikes for two days when he took me to the Bank of Flagstaff, where he was president, and introduced me to the cashier, Leonard Sexton, and the assistant cashier, Joe Driscoll. Gentlemen, he said, this is my son. Hell be in Monday morning. Put him to work.

I dont care what he does. I dont care if you pay him. Keep him off the streets and out of his mothers hair. On Monday, I began the most mundane job any bank had to offer: filing the canceled checks. I also began five summers of the most valuable work experience Ive ever had, including the 41 years in the news trade.

Before I left the bank, I did just about everything the place had to offer, including repossessing junker cars, sweeping the vault, being a teller, working the drive-in, and dealing with cus- tomers in ways that Ive forgotten. That first week, I got off to an excellent start. I was letting myself in the front door early one morning when several suits showed up and surrounded me. Son, the head suit said, we are the state bank examiners and well go in with you and get started. They looked impressive, but Sexton, Driscoll and the old man Jhad looked even mote impressive 'when they told me I was to let no r'one in the bank before it opened.

I looked the head suit right in the eye and said, Like hell you will! Then, I ducked in the door and locked it. When I told Sex-i ton and Driscoll what Id done, I thought theyd faint. Those suits really were the bank examiners. The drive-in always was good -for adventures. There was the summer when the man pulled up and asked, Is this where I leave Jit? I said it was.

Its a pretty big bundle, he fsaid. I opened the big bin and when I pulled it inside, I found his laundry. The first drive-in laundry 'window was just across the street obviously, hed gotten some bad directions. My favorite in all the -summers, though, was a return engagement the lady whose ccheckbook was hopelessly 'messed up and whose account jwas always overdrawn as a We went through this every summer and every summer Id somehow manage to get her Straightened out. By the next wed be going through the same routine all over.

Finally, my last summer, I asked her how she made such a mess. Didnt she understand you had to have money in the bank to checks? Oh, but I always have PLEN-cTY of checks, she replied, in all sincerity, Earth saverS A TRASHY TRIP If you travel aboard a cruise liner, ask your captain fo reduce the trash flow on board. A seven-day cruise on a medium-sized vessel uses about 222,000 foam coffee cups. 72 000 soda cans, 40,000 beer bottles and 11,000 wine bottles. Trash is often illegally dumped overboard and kills marine life when it is eaten Source The Audubon Mem Dec 1992 constitutional manner.

Solicitor General W. Scott Bales said the 9th Circuits full membership of 21 judges would decide by majority vote whether to review the three-judge panels ruling. If a review is approved, it would be made by 11 of the courts 21 judges. The law was challenged by the states two Planned Parenthood chapters. Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona, said it was wishful thinking for the attorney general to argue that we can entrust the welfare of young minor women in Arizona on faith to the state implementation on this law.

It is vital to have a time limit both in terms of the young persons health and her legal rights, because later in her pregnancy her legal rights are fewer, Howard said. She really has to know the state judge is required to deal with her legal rights expeditiously. John Jakubczyk, president of Arizona Right to Life, said it is unreasonable to presume judges would not act quickly. If the full 9th Circuit refuses to hear the case, abortion opponents may ask the Legislature next yeaf to pass a new law with a time limit, said Les Munsil, president of the Center for Arizona Policy. bitious man willing to murder anyone who got in his way.

What both sides agreed on is this: On the afternoon of Oct. 26, 1881, nine men shot it out in a vacant lot next to Flys boarding house, behind the OK Corral. On one side were John Doc Holliday, town marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers, Wyatt and Morgan. On the other were brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne. The shooting left both McLaurys and Billy Clanton dead.

Virgil and Morgan Earp were wounded; Holliday got a scratch. Lawyers for Mrs. McLaury said Holliday and the Earps were the aggressors, pistol-whipping Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury before the gunfight and firing the first shots. Earp said he fired one of the first two shots in self-defense after Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury drew their guns on him. The hundreds of lawyers in the audience at the Phoenician resort, voting with electronic keypads at their seats, agreed with Earp, voting 2-1 to reject Mrs.

McLaury claim for damages. Cases are often decided on how likable witnesses are, and Wyatt Earp was an extremely likabie person, Fine said after the verdict. Earp vindicated in OK Corral trial By MATT KELLEY Associated Press Writer PHOENIX The legendary shootout at the OK Corral was a case of self-defense, an audience of lawyers decided after a high-tech mock trial of the 118-year-old case. We were vindicated, declared Wyatt Earp, the great-grandnephew of the legendary lawman who played his namesake at the trial. Designed to show off advances in trial technology, Thursdays presentation at the State Bar of Arizona convention used witnesses in 19th Century garb including one whose fake mustache nearly fell off to offer testimony taken from contemporary accounts of the gun battle.

Since Earp and Holliday were formally cleared of murder charges back in 1881, the case was styled as a civil lawsuit by Kathleen McLau-ry, the mother of two brothers killed in the fray. The 30-second shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, has been played and replayed on film, video, computer disc and print, mostly as a good-and-evil tale with Earp in the heros role. Lawyers for Mrs. McLaury tried to make a dent in that good-guy image, portraying Earp as a violent and politically am By BETSEY BRUNER Sun Correspondent When Coconino County officials went looking for a new director for its sprawling Community Services Department, they didnt have to go far. Verna Fischer was already in Flagstaff, having accompanied her husband, Fred, when he relocated from California last October to take a job with the Natural Resource Conservation Service.

Verna Fischer had been director of administration for the Redwood Community Action Agency for 10 years in Eureka, but she decided to follow her husband. We decided it was much too far to commute, she said. Unbenownst to her, the county was looking for a new community services director after Joe Montoya, who founded the program, retired in December 1997 after 20 years. Fischer helped the Flagstaff Affordable Housing Coalition start their Middle Homebuyer Assistance Program, then applied for the county Public record Police Log The Coconino County Sheriffs Office deputies responded to Midg-ley Bridge north of Sedona at 5 p.m. Wednesday in response to a fall victim.

The deputies and the Sedona Fire Department arrived after a 7-year-old girl from Mesa reportedly slipped and fell 75 feet down a cliff while hiking with her family. According to a CCSO press release, her fall was broken by brush and she was conscious and communicating with rescuers when they ar Obituary i Guy Householder Jr. Guy Raymond Householder 56, of Flagstaff died Wednesday, June 23, 1999. Bom on Sept. 15, 1945, in Tulare, Mr.

Householder worked in real estate sales. He was position. Her first day on the job was Monday. Its fun. Im really looking forward to it, Fischer said during a reception thrown for her before Mondays meetings of the Board of Supervisors.

Ill be overseeing the day-to-day operation of the Community Services Division, as well as looking for other ways we can expand to meet community needs. Resources and services available include senior citizens services (case management, nutrition, respite services, and home care), transportation services (special needs and Pine Country Transit), public fiduciary, emergency services (assistance and referral), employment and job development (job listings and jobs for older Americans). Fischer replaces Dorothy Staskey, who served as interim director. Staskey will remain with the department. Dorothy Staskey has done an excellent job as the interim director while also maintaining her role as the program manager of senior services for Coconino County, Fisch- rived.

A technical rescue was performed by the Sedona Fire Department and Department of Public Safety Ranger 32. The girl was transported to Flagstaff Medical Center with multiple injuries. She is expected to recover fully. Williams Police Department reported that Douglas Gamer, 39, of Flagstaff, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting food and cigarettes from a Circle store, 222 W. Route 66, in Williams.

Police responded to the store at 9:44 a.m. on June 15 and apprehended the suspect as he was walking out of the store. The suspect allegedly threw drug paraphernalia out of his pocket when contacted by the officer. He suspect was identified and officers discovered an out- a lifetime member of the Coconino County Sheriffs Posse and a lifetime member of the Flagstaff Masonic Lodge No. 7, F.

and A.M. For more than 16 years, Mr. Householder was a city of Flagstaff police officer. He was also a Flagstaff Pine Country Pro Rodeo A I ZONA MSieni A Pulitzer Community Newspaper Flagstaff Publishing Co 1999 Official Legal Newspaper for City of Flagstaff and Coconino County Publication No (USPS 030-560) Anzona Daily Sun (ISSN 1054-9536) is pub- until 6 30 weekdays and until 10 30 a lished daily Monday through Friday evening, on weekends We will deliver your paper Saturday and Sunday morning by The that same day. Due to the distances in- Flagstalf Publishing Co 1751 Thompson volved, this service a not possible in adult St Flagstaff, A 86001 Post Office Box motor route areas, but rural subscribers will 1649, 66002 Penodicals postage paid at the receive the missing issues with the next day's Flagstaff, Anzona Post Office 66001 paper Subscription rates $10 25 per month for 7 Postmaster Send change of address to An-day delivery by earner, $10 75 per month for 7 zona Daily Sun, Post Office Box 1849, day delivery by auto earner, $264 per year by Flagstaff, AZ 86002 mail Advertising 7744545 Guaranteed Carrier Delivery Subscriber Service 7794189 If you fail to receive Anzona Daily Sun by Classified 556-2298 5 00pm Monday through Friday or 8 00 am Commercial Pnnbng 556-2284 Saturday and Sunday, can 7794189 and ask Newsroom 556-2241 for customer service We take telephone calls Other Departments 7744545 Sedona.

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