European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Woiden Vaud r  new York times i new right1 flourishes in new communities by John Herbers new York times in Western Between two win carved Mountain is a stretch of Flat de Sert Calvd the Golden not much lives there except Sagebrush and peo to the cast around the seat of Mohave coun and to the Between the Black mountains and the Colorado other new developments stretch for 75 Miles and Are still growing across the desert and up the the transformation of once desolate Mohave county is part of a National phenomenon of the late 1970s a migration to new and scattered devel from Maine to that Are establishing their own identities distinct from the Central the suburbs or agricultural that identity is substantially the 1980 elections and other evidence the new growth with their Independent Are proving to be particularly Fertile ground for the new with its populist emphasis on opposition to taxes and govern ment regulation of All even though they reflect the regional diversity in the nation in Many the new growth counties have some common according to politicians and the new migrants Are virtually All and most of them come from Middle class Back grounds with  incomes and Many Are fugitives from the cities and seek ing to escape regulation and such Edi cts As busing to achieve school according to a number of Many View themselves establishing a new life on the last american to varying All of the political and social developments of the new growth areas can be seen in Mohave which experienced a population increase of 115 percent since preliminary census figures show that people live in the county Square most of them along the Colorado River bordering Nevada and the county has grown twice As fast As the which is one of the fastest growing in the nation it has grown even faster than the burgeoning suburbs around Phoenix and the census Bureau counted 4 million More people in the nation than it had estimated it would and Many were discovered living in places like the new migrants have diluted the voting strength of Farmers and native workers who have traditionally favored increased Federal in Many Southern they have offset the democratic vote of and they have helped the Republican party make its most dramatic Advance in the Region in in the where the backs theland movement has been most it has contributed to growing Western alienation from the East and the Federal govern As seen in the Sagebrush a movement against Federal ownership of Large blocks of Western in the 4 presidential Arizona voted 2 to 1 for Ronald Reagan Over president but in to have always democratic when it was populated chiefly by indians and farm the mar Gin for Reagan was More than 3 to a spot Check of other new growth counties around the nation showed a similar the conservatism of the new numerous interviews and surveys Over the last year has been reinforced by the Normal conservatism of Rural the troubles of the cities seem far removed in such places As Mohave where people live has an Impact on How they think on Public the american population under present trends is on its Way to becoming As scattered As it was Early in the Century when most people lived on farms or in Small the 1980 census figures what is emerging from this politically is not a return to the  conservatism but a new political dimension that has Little to do with the needs of farms and Small informal interviews in Bullhead City indicate that the search for Independence and simplicity underlies the new Shirley who has founded the Community Center for the Golden Paradise land owners said she grew up in Chicago where she was a registered Democrat and where her husband installed appliances for sever Al years they moved to a suburb of Phoe and later came to Golden where they brought 40 acres of desert and built a House on we like my husband says he will never be bothered by she shuddering slightly at the thought of what her life in Chicago was Schur said she is still a registered but in Arizona that does not mean her congressmen include Bob a Democrat who has a near perfect conservative voting and Dennis de also a who recently congratulated the Mohave county supervisors for rejecting Federal Mohave county began to develop in the largely As a place for retirement and but in the 1970s people began arriving from As far away As the East Many of them Young adults who settled alongside the retirees in such developments As Lake Hatasu Golden Riviera and Bullhead i  move from Here for said 22 year old Jim Boyle of Golden shores who works for a Utility in nearby a town that is frequently cited in the summer weather reports As the hottest place in the but people dont seem to mind the heat of sum which can be overcome by air conditioning and by swimming or fishing in the Clear River there Are some new Industrial jobs in the county Industrial to Cash in on the new Las vegas gambling operations have built casinos on the Nevada Side of the bringing arizonans to the gambling tables on free economic especially the availability of have Long been a prime motive to move from one area to but they Are no longer say Ted and Edward Blakely of the University of California at who surveyed newcomers to three California counties that have experienced growth similar to that of Mohave county Sutler and Mendo the newcomers in our Sample indicated simplicity of life and Rural atmosphere were much More important than Job prospects in making the decision to they despite the desire for Rural some of the to have county newcomers Are crowding into rapidly or the and for the most part expanses of the Golden Valley in ban izing settlements along the River that have rutted streets and few Public at this another theme of the Rural the search for comes into Bullhead which is not a City in any sought to incorporate As a municipality of about because counties Are weak in Arizona while towns and cities receive substantial revenues from the but the voters Defeated the proposal by a wide margin to avoid the possibility of tax at about the same the county supervisors voted to refuse Federal Aid other than general Revenue the Only kind of Federal assistance that does not come with strings they do not want the regulations that go with said Keith editor of the Mohave Valley Larry a real estate dealer who helped develop the says that what is needed is Community self but we dont have the ability to get the people meetings have been a the residents do not want to subordinate their Independence to Community Over the mountains in Golden Road signs have been posted notifying residents of a county proposal to ban the use of travel trailers As Mobile a practice according to Michael the county planning had been causing sanitation about 200 trailer owners marched on the county government to protest the in Many of the new growth counties across the the emerging conservatism is based on a flu migrants have historically been the the authors of the Berkeley study it is not surprising that they Are usually slightly More resourceful and frequently better educated than their Peers in both the Community from which they came and the place where they in Mohave entrepreneurs Are with Small businesses springing up from the Rozycki expressed Surprise that the growth has continued for several years on so slim an economic but it just keeps he x new York times Tim Koors 2 Page 14 the stars and stripes Mike and Sherry Jackson with right at site of new Home in Bullhead january 1981 actress Susan Sullivan of its a tilt fid Totta by Jerry Buck associated press Susan Sullivan finds it ironic that she has been cast As the Mother figure both in front and behind the camera of the new Abc television comedy its a i play the the Central character with a Good marriage and a she do you know that i am the Only one of these women who does not have a Good relationship everyone is either married or living with and very and in the Only one who out there Sullivan recently broke up with someone after several when you come out of a relationship like that that took up a Large part of your she you then throw All of your energies into your and that i find is not Good because it throws every thing a Little off in the locker room comedy about waitresses she plays Lois a wife and Mother of whats so Lovely about playing this character is that because Shes a Mother figure Ive become a Mother figure to the other a i have the same relationship with the girls on the show As they come to me for i find it Sullivan says she thinks it mostly has to do with the character she i think in these things youre Al ways cast in the essence of who you the series role originally was one she did not she turned it Down three times because she thought it was too most of the jokes were sexual innuendos and the waitresses All bounced around in skimpy cos she also said no because her ego rebelled at playing a waitress after having been Julie in that television series for she the first time i read this i got up on my Little High horse and said this is i called my agent and i dont even want to meet these in not interested in this kind of sexual show or in playing a who says Shes Only done two things in her act and wait on i was priggish about but strike it was my own snobbish Ness that when i read this part i said i cant be a i Ive been a a i seemed to be stepping this is i was never a doctor or a i see it All actors really beginning to believe the parts they Are its not Only your own but youre supported by everyone around you get invited to speak at she says she also found it hard to accept a Rote As waitress because she Felt she would be letting Down All the women for whom Ive been holding up the Banner of the emerging new at the Abc meeting of affiliate stations one woman told her she was disappointed to see her play a waitress in the Sullivan worked As a Playboy Bunny in new York while still in her she says she became a Bunny after seeing an and in the new York i never thought id get a i was going Back to but they said i was exactly what they were looking they wanted a Cross Section of girls because there you really did make conversation with the custom she also got a working schedule that fitted in with her College classes and any plays that she appeared she was i used to go around to the tables and apologize to the i mean i would recite Shakespeare so they would ask me what i did and i could say i went to i didst want anyone to think waitressing was what i Sullivan says the waitresses in its a living believe they Are Only waiting on tables on their Way to something one waitress is a College another aspires to be an another came to los Angeles seeking Advent if All this sounds Sullivan says she believes its a living was fashioned right Down the line after the successful its a very Good backdrop in which to have this kind of Locke room to establish characters and then Branch off into the other relationships in their she i waitressing in itself is certainly not that what is this Locke room talk about Sullivan from her observations women talk mostly about men and sex which is just what the women on its a living talk we have that Large she plus we have the character of Cassie played by Ann Shes doing a contemporary Mae with the same laughing at the priggish Ness of contemporary mor i think that can be very but its a Fine and sometimes i think we make it and sometimes we she says the actresses discussed the scanty cos Tumes with the producers but no change was made at that it was for a lot of different she not the least of which was that Abc and their track record proves that a certain amount of voyeuristic sexuality draws an audience that works for about is and after that youd better have something the stars and stripes Page 15