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2-ARIZONA DAILY SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Sunday, December 31, 1995 Tom Carpenter Daily Sun Columnist Divining true love a tingler For weeks now, friends and family have been asking whether I'll be making any resolutions for the new year. I've tried to avoid answering their questions. I'm afraid they'll offer suggestions and I'd rather operate under my own delusions. To set the record straight, I do have resolutions in mind. They're the same ones I have every year save, tithe, floss, cease my public mutterings and stop dowsing for love.

I've never been able to keep any of these good intentions longer than it takes an effervescent tablet to dissolve at 4 a.m. on New Year's Day. I can always save tomorrow and I can tithe next Sunday and as for flossing, well, my hygienist is happiest when she can chastise me for my lapses. As long as the service ethic continues to deteriorate in the retail and banking world, I'm afraid muttering to myself will be impossible to overcome. Still, hope springs eternal.

An even bigger challenge than stifling my public muttering will be overcoming my compulsion to dowse. It all started several years back when my father told me we needed a second well on the farm. He had to go into town that day and he asked me to stick around the place and wait for the dowser. Terrific, I thought. Some quack'll show up and wander around the place and pick some bogus spot and the next thing I'll know, my old man'll be screaming about the dry hole he just bought and glaring at me, the boy who can wreck an anvil.

Heber Nuckles looked like a clean-shaven Santa who farmed stoop crops. He pegged me for a skeptic. From the cluttered bed of his truck he retrieved a pair of heavy copper wires, bent to form "Ls." With his palms up, he held the short sides of the "Ls" in each hand and started walking around the farm, talking out loud. I thought he was talking to me, but he was talking to the rods. "Tell me, please, where's the best water." Between the house and the peach tree, those rods pointed downward.

I couldn't tell if he'd twisted them. He approached the spot from another direction. Again the rods dipped. "Tell your daddy to drill here." Gauging my disbelief, he offered the rods to me. "Here," he said.

"You try it." With a shrug, I held the rods as he showed me and walked with them toward the spot he'd located. When those rods swung in my tight palms, I felt like I'd been struck by lightning. It felt like a low, thick current reached up out of the ground and traveled through the rod and my arms to my heart. My pulse raced and my chest pounded. I walked backward and approached again and I'll be darned rods didn't point like a setter's nose at that same patch of dusty ground.

Heber walked up to me and smiled, "You got the gift, boy." What a gift it was. Every chance I got, I tagged along with Heber whenever his services as a dowser were required. He often let me dowse first and then he followed up to make sure. After all, it was his reputation for finding water, noi mine, that was on the line. So, I took my show on the road.

I did parlor tricks mostly, finding hidden keys and such. I carried my copper rods in my trunk and if the word got out during a party that I could divine the presence of true love between a couple, I was hounded until I gave in and dowsed the reckless pair. I got lucky the first couple of time I did it. The young couples loved other dearly and the rods dipped convincingly to confirm it. One misguided evening though, those rods pointed like accusing fingers at a biker couple who were celebrating his early release for good behavior and her commemorative tattoo.

I had to run out the back door and hop three hedges and a fence to avoid experiencing my copper rods as body-cavity probes. Yet, my craving to dowse has persisted. I still sneak in a dose of dowsing now and again. I crave that wonderful electric connection I get with those divining rods, but I really don't need my own depths plumbed the likes of Don the ex-con and by Daphne, his illustrated woman. So, I may not save, tithe, floss or stop muttering this year, but I sure as heck won't be dowsing.

Chris Daily Sun Snowballs in the sun Brothers Gary and Brian Tuttle engage in a fierce snowball fight Saturday afternoon in Fort Valley, where the mercury hit a balmy 48 degrees. The Southern California brothers were visiting their grandfather and said the snow was great while it lasted. man in a parking lot on Fourth arrested at 1:32 a.m. Saturday. Public Street late Friday night.

Willard G. Clauschee, 37, of A police officer patrolling the Pinon, arrested at 11:51 p.m. Friday. street reported he saw Padilla, 18, John E. Welch, 29, 2632 N.

record the kicking a man who was prostrate on Fox Run Drive, Flagstaff, arrested at pavement. 11:33 he p.m. Friday. Padilla told Flagstaff police Steve W. James, 26, 1105 E.

Police Log suspected the 22-year-old Flagstaff Ponderosa Parkway No. 113, arman of breaking into a Phoenix rested 9:11 at p.m. Friday. Two Flagstaff men were ar- house. Timothy S.

Luckenbach, 28, rested early Saturday for assaulting Padilla was booked into Coconino arrested at 1701 E. Mountain View a bartender and a patron outside County Jail and charged Ave. No. 13, arrested at 5:59 p.m. with misJoe's Place on East Route 66.

demeanor assault. Friday. William S. Karlage allegedly Flagstaff William S. Karlage, 25, 601 Friday morning a pushed a Flagstaff man against the woman turned in a gun that her 10- W.

Dale Flagstaff, arrested at wall of the bar, then Mark W. Mat- year-old son had acquired. 1:16 a.m. Friday. lock allegedly hit the man in the Nicolas V.

Rodriguez, 33, of head, according to Flagstaff police The woman, 38, told police her Phoenix, arrested at 11:59 p.m. records. When a bartender came out son said he had traded a BB gun for Thursday. to stop the assault, Matlock alleged- the revolver with another Faina Oza, 20, 3988 E. Marie ly hit the bartender, too.

juvenile, about two weeks ago. Flagstaff, arrested at 10:37 Matlock said he saw it in the two Flagstaff police are investigating. p.m. Thursday. men's eyes that each was planning Oscar R.

Yazzie, 24, 1110 S. to hit him first, according to police Lonetree Flagstaff, arrested at reports. Charged with DUI 1:38 a.m. Thursday. Karlage, 25, and Matlock, 24, Donald W.

Swarts, 36, 1924 both of Flagstaff, were booked into Bin Fu, 32, 4795 Spud Drive, Marion Drive, Flagstaff, arrested at Coconino County Jail and charged Flagstaff, arrested at 3:11 a.m. 1:21 a.m. Thursday. with misdemeanor assault. Saturday.

James D. Rhodes, 12435 S. Flagstaff police arrested Jamie Buster Littlefoot, 22, 703 S. Gopher Road, Flagstaff, arrested at W. Padilla for allegedly assaulting a Blackbird Roost No.

40, Flagstaff, 1:04 a.m. Thursday. Habitat move-in A celebration of homes will take place next Sunday, Jan. 7, at the Flagstaff High School gymnasium. The public is invited to attend the Home Dedication Celebration for Habitat of Humanity's first two Flagstaff homes.

The festivities are to begin at 3 p.m., and will include tours of the homes, speeches by local citizens instrumental in the homes' completions, as well as presentations to the homeowner families. Community News The public is also welcome to become involved in the traditional Habitat for Humanity traditional "pound party" for Habitat homeowners by bringing a pound of any non-perishable food to the celebration as a housewarming gift. Habitat for Humanity of Flagstaff is an ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to making affordable housing available to working families with good credit records in the community. The first Flagstaff Habitat homes are on West Elm Avenue. The two families whose homes will be dedicated Sunday are Pedro and Elizabeth Chavarria and family, and Valerie Dalton and family.

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CUSTOM BUILT TO ORDER 526-8850 Fife confident of overcoming troubles in '96 By WILLIAM F. RAWSON Associated Press PHOENIX Weakened politically by his September bankruptcy and persistent rumors of an impending criminal indictment, Republican Gov. Fife Symington faces what could be his difficult legislative session. Or does he? "I think he's damaged," says House Minority Leader Art Hamilton, D-Phoenix. "But I don't think it's going to have a whole lot of negative effect on his ability to govern with respect to the Legislature." It's an opinion Symington shares.

"We have our differences but I think we're on the same page," Symington said of himself and the Legislature's GOP majority. Symington also points out that his financial and legal problems are nothing new. They have haunted him throughout his nearly five years as governor. When Symington declared bankruptcy in September, claiming nearly $25 million in debts and only $67,000 in assets, it was just the latest in a string of personal setbackS. His once significant real estate empire had begun to crumble even before he took office in February 1991.

And federal savings and loan regulators named him in 1 a $200 million suit over his actions as a director of the defunct Southwest Savings and Loan Association before his first Christmas in office. Speculation that a federal grand jury that has been examining his business affairs was about to return a criminal indictment have popped GOV. FIFE SYMINGTON up every few months for the past three years. But the problems didn't keep Symington from winning re-election and have had no visible effect on his relations with the Legislature. "The fact is, I got re-elected and it was well known that I had lost all my real estate properties," Symington said.

"But people recognize I have done exactly what I said I would do." Election year politics could complicate relations between the governor and Republican lawmakers. So could the political ambitions of Senate Majority Leader Tom Patterson and House Speaker Mark Killian, both of whom are considered potential gubernatorial candidates. "I believe Mark wants very badly to run for governor and that Patterson has decided to run for governor," Hamilton said. Concessionaires' challenge By DAILY SUN STAFF The state parks department is Three of Grand Canyon Nation- soliciting donations to help it keep al Park's concessionaires on the park partially open until the Friday donated $17,500 to help federal government ends its shutkeep the Grand Canyon open one down, said Jay Ziemann, state extra day. parks assistant director.

Now, Babbitt Brothers Trading Ziemann said the donation is Grand Canyon Railway and enough to keep the park open for the Verkamp family all of one extra day, which pushes back which operate businesses in the the date when the state will run out park are challenging the rest of of money to Jan. 4. He said the northern Arizona's hospitality in- state parks department itself set dustry to match their effort. aside enough money to keep the "It's time for those of us who park open for 12 days, while benefit from the park to step up to Phoenix businessman John F. the plate," said David Chambers, Long's $52,875 donation is president and CEO of Babbitt enough to keep the park open for Brothers Trading Co.

three days. Richard Rawnsley Richard N. Rawnsley died Dec. 24 in Flagstaff. He was 74.

Private services have been held. Mr. Rawnsley was born May 30, 1921, in Kansas City, and raised there. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he moved to California.

He lived there until moving to Flagstaff in 1991. Mr. Rawnsley owned and operated the Cooperative Greeting Cards Company for 35 years. He was an avid golfer and a member of the Flagstaff Golf Association. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Rawnsley of Flagstaff; daughters Cheryl A.

Zerah of Encino, Linda C. Rawnsley of Atlanta and Kathleen A. Rawnsley of Santa Monica, sister Marjorie Gardner of Bellevue, a and two grandchildren. Lawrence Gordy Lawrence K. Gordy died Wednes- Obituaries day in Tuba City.

He was 72. Funeral services for Mr. Gordy will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, at First Southern Baptist Church in Flagstaff, with Mr.

Harvey Betsellie presiding. Interment will be at Citizens Cemetery in Flagstaff. Mr. Gordy was born Sept. 23, 1923, in Gray Mountain.

He was a Baptist preacher. Survivors include his wife, Louise W. Gordy of Cameron; sons Larry Emerson Gordy and Vernon Leander Gordy of Cameron; daughters Lorraine Singer of Flagstaff, and Violette Pauatea and Victoria Shyrock of Sunnyvale, brother Elvin Gordy of Cameron; sisters Lois Yazzie of Cameron and Mary Neztsotsie and Elvina Yellow of Gray Mountain; 15 grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild. A A Daily Sun Flagstaff Publishing 1995 Official Legal Newspaper for City of Flagstaff and Coconino County Publication No. (USPS 030-560) Arizona Daily Sun (ISSN: 1054-9536) is missing issues with the next day's paper.

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