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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1965
Page
9
Tempe and Scottsdale notices detail the deaths of Gordon C Jensen Walter J Burns and Boyd Parker plus services for Don P Skousen in Phoenix Scottsdale and Tempe. Surviving relatives include multiple children and siblings with memorials in Green Acres and Memory Lawn Memorial Parks.
A series of funeral rites and funerals are noted across Arizona towns. Assad Romley, a longtime Phoenix resident, was to be entombed at Greenwood Mausoleum after a Whit ney service and St. George Orthodox Church rites led by Rev. John Koury and Rev. Paul Romsey. Nellie I. Haskell of Tempe, killed in a Tempe Auto accident, had services at Tempe Mortuary with burial in Emporia, Kansas. Alice Amacher, 88, of Goodyear, died. services at Cannon Funeral Home with burial in Royal Oak, Michigan. Jose S. Gradilla, 67, of Glendale, received a rosary and requiem at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, with burial at Glendale Memorial Park. Fer m in Hinojosa, 65, of Avondale, had a rosary at Cannon Funeral Home. The notices list numerous survivors across Arizona and beyond.
Walter L Englebart 70 died yesterday at his Scottsdale home. He managed the Carl King Band in Fort Dodge Iowa for 39 years and moved to Scottsdale five years ago. Burial will be in Fort Dodge.
The Arizona House approved a bill and constitutional amendment to transfer 62 acres of Papago Park land to Maricopa County for a new county hospital site, with an 87 to 13 vote to abolish the state tax commission and adopt county level fiscal controls. The measure, opposed by some lawmakers as partisan, would place the land transfer on a payment in service basis and requires income tests for widows to qualify for exemptions. Surviving relatives of Carl Ragan, a Phoenix family man, mourn his death in a rest home.
Burns decries blocking moves by county and state bodies over hospital funding and budgeting bills. He criticizes the hospital board and supervisors for acting before the Legislature settles the fiscal reform measure.
UPI reports actor Dale Robertson, a Chickasaw from Oklahoma, will be guest of honor as tribes gather to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Reservation this weekend.
The daily log lists House and Senate items from 1966 including creating a state finance department, licensing boards, emergency appropriations for relief, tax and licensing tweaks, vehicle and building permit reporting, tax exemption limits, ballot tabulation tech, county hospital land transfers, racing permits, driving license suspensions, amending property tax exemptions for widows, and payroll and appropriation adjustments for public services and institutions.
In Formosa the high court denied retrial appeals by four Formosans, two sentenced to death and two to life, for the murder of Lt Col Thomas E Glover of Brownwood Texas. His body was found in his burned Taipei home on October 3, 1962.
A redistricting plan approved by Arizona’s three congressional representatives was submitted for legislative consider ation awaiting Senate passage of a bill allowing up to 30 percent population variance. The plan would adjust districts to near equal population per the 1960 census, with District 1 in Maricopa County reduced to 478000 and District 8 raised to 383200, while District 4 remains at about 440415.
A joint House Senate conference committee agreed on a civil rights bill to allow possible fines for discrimination by businesses and employers. The measure would create a civil rights commission with power to issue determinations and seek conciliation, with fines for noncompliance in public accommodations or employment.
Snow and flurries are expected for the Lower Lakes and Mid-Atlantic states tonight and rain along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to the Carolinas. It will be colder east of the Mississippi, warmer in the North Central Plains and Rockies, with sunny skies and slightly warmer temperatures in Phoenix and Salt River Valley today and tomorrow. Highs near 73 today and 76 tomorrow in Arizona, with varied regional temps across the state.
The Valley Club Calendar lists multiple events including Phoenix German American Society St Patrick’s Dance at 1 p.m. at 431 E Dunlap, Thunderbird Country Club dinner dance at 7 p.m. near Seventh Street and Thunderbird Trail, Phoenix Ballroom Dancers at 3 p.m. Elm Ballroom 102 W McDowell, Slovak American Social Club 7:30 p.m. Camelback Women’s Club Indian School, Welsh Cambrian Society 2 46 p.m. Orangewood Church Seventh Street and Church, Minois Arizona picnic at noon Los Lomitas Ramada South Mountain Park, Arizona Michigan Club picnic at Encanto Park 15th Avenue and Holly, Wyoming Club of Arizona picnic Ramada No 1 South Mountain Park, Triangle Club of Arizona dinner noon to 5 30 p.m. Knights of Pyth ing Hall 1830 N 270t Ave, Hungarian American Lokigh Club dinner dance 6 p.m. Pulinski Hall 4331 E McDowell, Manchester College Indiana alumni dinner noon Saloma Schock Second Street and Marshall Scottsdale.
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