Vietnamese girl finds voice through art in Scottsdale
Ha Thi Leu a Coronado High senior from Vietnam crafts a ceramic deer and writes a story to convey loneliness felt after moving to Scottsdale five months ago. Her English improves with intensive classes, while she and her large family settle with church support and aim for nursing studies and eventual licensure.
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Ha Thi Leu
Coronado High School
Yavapai School
Beryl Grubaugh
Valley Presbyterian Church
Coronado
Hohokam
Hathi Leu
Marley confirmed to State Racing Commission in Arizona
Senate approves Kemper Marley 69 for a six year term on the State Racing Commission by voice vote after earlier committee opposition over dog racing ties. Also approved Daniel Simmons 46 for a second term on the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Marley’s past and Funk family control questions cited. Marley, once highway commissioner, je was indicted in 1942 for grand theft of a highway truck motor but acquitted.
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Phoenix
Kemper Marley
State Racing Commission
Senate
Marley
Daniel Simmons
Air Force
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Commission
Senate Judiciary Committee
Raul Castro
52Nd St
Jones Osborn
D-Yuma
Funk
Arizona
Department of Public Safety
Castro
United Liquors
Old State Fair Board
Bob Stump
D-Tolleson
City sales tax near record as Scottsdale shows strength
Scottsdale reports March sales tax receipts of 481 894 dollars the second highest month ever with January at a record 495 682 dollars The nine month total tops 3 8 million a nine percent rise from the prior year Stroup notes first quarter 1976 strong at 1 4 million and expects auto dealers retail stores and hotels to stay solid
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Scottsdale
Michael C. Stroup
Stroup
Boni the deer who cannot hear or see yet longs to speak
A child writes about Boni a deer who is deaf and blind and isolated near a rivulet. The narrator explains a wish to communicate and help Boni hear and see someday, noting the narrator cannot hear or speak English now but aims to help Boni in the future.
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Boni
Surprise Scottsdale board vote on budget override fate
Scottsdale School Board deadlocked on a spring override referendum as Usdane opposed exceeding a 53 cent tax increase. Swanson and Streich supported the referendum while Childs Rosen and Usdane opposed it citing budget reallocations and deficit concerns.
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Scottsdale
Robert Usdane
Donald Swanson
Paul Streich
Sam Childs
Aaron Rosen
Usdane
Special education costs push Scottsdale tax hike to 54 percent
Scottsdale taxpayers face a 54 percent rise as the school district boosts the special education program from 2.56 million to 3.94 million for 1976 77. The move funds 115 more employees and expanded services amid state funding cuts and mandates.
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Scottsdale
Jack Kearney
al Scharf
Kearney
Robert Uldane
Scottsdale avoids housing shortage says Phoenix investor
Gary Driggs president of Western Savings and Loan Association told Phoenix Real Estate Board the Maricopa County housing supply will not keep pace with demand by year end except Scottsdale where single family units stay in surplus. He predicts apartment vacancies in Scottsdale under six percent this fall and rising rents while county wide starts rise from 10 000 in 1975 to 12 000 14 000 with demand over 18 000 as employment grows in late 1976 led by Sentry Honeywell Sperry Digital Corp and others hiring up to 2000 workers.
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Maricopa County
Scottsdale
Phoenix
Gary Driggs
Western Savings and Loan Association
Phoenix Real Estate Board
Driggs
Sentry Insurance
Honeywell
Sperry
Digital Corp
Black Canyon
Crime bill drops death penalty restoration in push to pass
In Washington the bill’s chief sponsors McClellan and Hruska agreed to remove restoration of the death penalty to aid passage. They also indicated willingness to keep espionage and classified information laws as is. In Nicosia about 2000 Greek Cypriots attacked the U S Embassy protesting U S aid to Turkey. In Tokyo protests persisted in Tian An Men Square with a brief assault on a public building as wreaths for Chou En-lai were noted.
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Washington
John J. McClellan
D-Ark
Roman L. Hruska
R-Neb
Judiciary Committee
Nicosia
Cyprus
U.S
Turkey
Tokyo
Peking
Tien An Men
Chou En-lai
Russian advisers in Mozambique aid Rhodesian guerrilla training
U.S. intelligence sources report 18 Russian military advisers have arrived in Mozambique to train Rhodesian black nationalist guerrillas amid ongoing Cold War tensions.
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Mozambique
Washington
U.S
Syria threatens intervention in Lebanon crisis
Beirut reported Syria may intervene in Lebanon's civil war as Parliament speaker Kamal Assaad sets a Saturday session to start replacing Christian President Suleiman Franjieh. Also included are local weather notes with clear skies and warm temperatures midweek.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Kamal Assaad
Suleiman Franjieh
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Vietnam
Grubaugh
Scottsdale Community College
Diamond’s
Malouf
Quiliy
Hoffman
Scharf
Swanson
Childs
Associated Press
China
Syria
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