Tucson Ruins Rock Fests

TUCSON, Arizona — Two rock festivals planned for the Thanksgiving weekend here were squashed by local legal authorities. One of them was approved by the Police Dept. and the Mayor, but due to pressure from the populace of this ’Zona burg, it had to be cancelled at the last minute, via the Mayor and the City Council revoking their approval.

The other concert, planned for the three day weekend, was scheduled for the El Diablo (The Devil? But the Stones wouldn’t have been there, nonetheless) Ranch; it was rubbed out in the backlash from the other affair however. Superior Court Judge Ben J. Birdsall of Tucson complained that “We called Woodstock and were told that there was so much trouble with stranded hippies that the welfare people there just threw up their hands and hid in the bushes until the trouble blew over.” County officials in Tucson, however, had done much the same with the El Diablo application, accepting it but refusing to process it.