County Supervisors Back Part Time County Attorney Post
The board kept the county attorney position as part time after debate among local lawyers and officials. They approved Alpine East zoning and a preliminary plat near the Navajo Reservation, authorized improvement districts, and accepted a $538,405 water system bid for Forest Lakes Estates. Bonds for Kachina Village districts were awarded to San Francisco Securities, with yields around 7.23 to 7.29 percent. Deposits to four county banks were assigned percentages, and liquor license applications for The Hunt Club and Yavapai Lodge Center were approved for transmission.
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Alpine East
Leupp Road
Navajo Reservation
J. Michael
Flournoy
Momby
Flourenoy
Bat
Conklin Contractors Inc
Wilcox
Forest Lakes Estates
San Francisco
Great Western Bank and Trust
First National Bank of Arizona
Valley National Bank
Arizona Bank
Hunt Club
Mormon Lake
Yavapai Lodge
Grand Canyon South Rim
State Department of Liquor Licenses
Flagstaff Council approves HUD funds for Brannen Homes
The Flagstaff City Council approved a 50 vote resolution to secure about 50000 from HUD to fund repairs at Brannen Homes. The plan covers new routing and appliance furnishings as part of a housing program begun in 1971 by the Flagstaff Housing Authority. Council also swore in attorney Willian Mr. Egan to replace Larry Loven, with Nations dissenting.
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Flagstall
Citix
Brannen Homes
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Groan Development
HUD
Flagstaff Housing Authority
Housing Authority
John Warren
Ald
Williams Man Faces Charge After Bakery Break-In
Anastacio Chareez, 22, of Williams, is in county jail on a first degree burglary charge after a Friday morning break-in at Dunn's Bakery on Bill Williams Avenue. He was arrested at his home following reports by Elizabeth Dunn and Regina Corrick of a man at the shop and a pup left behind after the break-out.
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Anastacio Chareez
Williams
Dunn's Bakery
Bill Williams Ave
Chareez
Williams City
Elizabeth Dunn
Regina Corrick
Char Eet
Bogus $20 Bills Still Turning Up
The U S Secret Service warned that counterfeit twenty dollar bills previously detected in February continue to circulate in Arizona. About 150 notes have been traced, mainly in Phoenix and Tucson, over the last month.
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Tucson
Secret’ Service Today
Arizona
Secret Service
Phoenix
Gainsborough Portrait Found Hidden in Family Home
Two sisters in southeast England uncovered a three foot square Gainsborough portrait in their late father Maj. J. Townshend's possessions. Tax and insurance records valued it at 2,600 in the 1930s, but experts estimate up to 398,000. Sotheby's identified it as The Grosvenor Family, an unrecorded masterwork, and related it to Gainsborough's celebrated Robert Andrews portrait.
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London
Maj. J. Townshend
Sotheby's
Andrew Festing
England
Gainsborough
Grosvenor
Cabin Burglary Reported at Clear Creek Pines
Coconino County deputies received a report from Mrs. Gordon Gress of 237 West Cactus Phoenix detailing a break in at the family's cabin and storage shed on lot 447 Clear Creek Pines. A chain saw two electric and gasoline boat motors and two tackle boxes were reported stolen.
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Coconino
Gordon Gress
W. Cactus
Phoenix
Clear Creek Pines
McGovern Meets Governors Aims for Unity at Conference
George McGovern met with 22 Democratic governors at the National Governors Conference in Houston to push a cooperative campaign. He pledged to oppose frivolous delegate challenges and suggested a Southern running mate if he secures the nomination, while governors remained cautious about backing him.
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Houston
Tex
George McGovern
South Dakota
Texas
reGovern
Carter
Beaver School Window Vandalism Bites Public Schools
South Beaver School reports about 120 windows broken late Sunday or early Monday in a vandalism spree affecting Beaver School and other city campuses. Coconino High and Flagstaff Junior High also damaged. superintendent Anthony Williams notes repairs underway and initial totals rising.
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Flagstaff
South Beaver School
Coconino High School
Flagstaff Jr. High School
Stock Case City Man To Testify In Canada
Floyd Bleak Pan American Mines vice president and Howard Ecker sley will travel to Montreal by June 20 to testify in civil suits regarding alleged shady stock dealings at Pan American Mines. Patrick Brawley, former general manager, is free on bail after forgery and conspiracy charges linked to a $5 million shareholder defraud. Eckersley and Bleak face fraud charges over the June 1971 prospectus. Hearings underway in Montreal involve two Canadians in Pan American dealings. Bleak calls a May 28 1971 Pan American minutes action a forgery.
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Flagstaff
Floyd Bleak
Montreal
Canada
Howard Hughes
Howard Eckersley
Pan American
Break
Pan American Company
Lightning Strikes APS Lines in Flagstaff Outage
A rain and electrical storm cut power to a small Flagstaff area for about three hours on Monday. Ed Gledhill of Arizona Public Service said homes on Dale Avenue between San Francisco and Agassiz streets were without power from 11:50 to 2:30 p.m. after lightning struck power lines. Fire crews guarded the downed lines near Southern Union Gas Co. offices on north San Francisco street until APS crews arrived. No other damage was reported.
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Flagstaff
Ed Gledhill
Arizona Public Service
Dale Avenue
San Francisco
Agassiz
House Blaze Snuffed at Mountainaire
A Mountainaire family was awakened by a small exterior fire at 4:30 a.m. Deputy Dave Owens spotted smoke from the Barnes home at 192 Cherokee and alerted the Flagg staff Fire Department. Firemen limited damage to a wall and a wooden box after rekindling ashes were placed near the house.
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Mountainaire
Roy Barnes
Dave Owens
Onwens
Flaggstaff
Barnes
Donn Ritchey Service Held In Phoenix
Donn Lee Ritchey 35 born in Flagstaff died Saturday in John C. Lincoln Hospital. Services were held this afternoon in Phoenix with burial in Memory Lawn Memorial Park. He lived in Phoenix 30 years, was a glassflower, former Globe Scoutmaster, and an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Survived by wife Frances, daughter Yvette, son David, mother Mrs. Mabel Ritchey, sister Mrs. Pat Massey of Phoenix and three other sisters in San Diego Douglas, brother Dick of San Francisco, and grandmother L. W. Hewitt of Page.
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Donn Lee Ritchey
Flagstaff
John C. Lincoln Hospital
Phoenix
Memory Lawn Memorial Park
Ritchey
Globe
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Frances
Yvette
David
Mabel Lee Ritchey
Pat Massey
Margaret Wah
Carol Garote
San Diego
Iva Stiles
Douglas
San Francisco
L. W. Hewitt
Plage Staff
Rub a Dub 169 Hours in the Tub World Record Claim
Hal Halloway a 20 year old Texas Tech student from Dallas emerges after 169 hours in a shower bath claiming a world record. He notes he may not bathe again soon while Guinness lists Peter Shell of Munich with 158 hours in 1968 as the prior record.
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Lubrxge
Tex
Hal Halloway
Texas Tech
Dallas
Halloway
Peter Shell
Munich
Germany
Gubbock
Markets Pause As Stocks Drift In Narrow Trade
New York trading lacked momentum as profit taking and bargain hunting offset. The Dow Jones industrial average fluctuated around 985, up 0.61, after peaking above 344 earlier and finishing near the same gain late in the session. NYSE prices at 3:30 p.m. showed only marginal advances across issues.
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New York
Flagstaff District Adopts Performance Based Salaries
The board sets teacher raises by performance with high school assistants earning 16100 to 17140 yearly. Salaries in all cages will be raised or frozen based on individual performance. Students in ninth grade will be screened for minimum reading standards and retested if needed for graduation eligibility with extenuating circumstances considered.
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Ates
Flagstaff
Kenneth Bean
Possible violation in Humphrey campaign donations case
The Federal Elections Office referred eight $6,000 contributions to Hubert Humphrey’s presidential campaign to the Justice Department under the 1971 act. The inquiry centers on gifts said to be made possible by John L. and Pranets L. Loeb of New York and processed through Thatcher. Penalties include fines up to $5,000 or more and potential imprisonment.
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Washington
Justice Department
Hubert H. Humphrey
Office of Federal Elections
Minnesota
Paul R. Thatcher
John L. and
Pranets L. Loeb
New Yorkity
Phillip 5. Hughes
Elections Office
Vari
New York
Loeb, Rhoades & Co
City Keeps Outdoor Burning Ban Despite Rains
Flagstaff Fire Chief Don Vorhies said the city will not lift the outdoor burning suspension tied to the dry season, even after recent rains. The U.S. Forest Service lifted forest closures, but the city plans to maintain the in-city ban for an indefinite period amid ongoing weather relief.
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Flagstaff
Don Vorhies
Hallis Department
U.S. Forest Service
Vorhies
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