Oil firms line up for Alaska rights
Alaska oil firms vie for Gulf of Alaska drilling leases as federal officials expect bids up to 1 billion from about 70 companies. The Frontier Area may hold up to 10 billion barrels of oil and 430 trillion cubic feet of gas, with auctions planned before 1978 amid environmental litigation.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Ed Hoffman
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Frontier
Interior Department
Prudhoe Bay
Gulf
U.S. Geological Survey
United States
U.S
Washington
Jay Hammond
Hammond
Federal
Hearing on DES funds in Scottsdale at City Hall
Representatives of the Maricopa Association of Governments hold a 7:30 PM public hearing at Scottsdale City Hall to gather local views on social services for Department of Economic Security priorities. Advocates for children youth families elderly and those with mental retardation blindness and substance abuse will be heard. DES will use the input to allocate 11 million dollars in Maricopa County federal funds starting October 1976 with a May 30 deadline for priority submission.
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Maricopa
Maricopa County
Association
DES
Beef prices rise 11 cents a pound this week in Arizona
The Retail Grocers Association of Arizona says beef carcass prices have increased about 11 cents per pound in two weeks. Ground beef could hit 70 cents per pound or more as costs pass to consumers. In Window Rock, Pat Chee Miller resigns as Navajo Housing Authority executive director while other officials remain under scrutiny over a California investment firm financial tangle.
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Phoenix
Lou Combs
Window Rock
Pat Chee Miller
Navajo Housing Authority
California
Roy J. Cleveland
Miller
Peter MacDonald
Marshall Tome
Carl ‘Todacheene
Housing Authority
Klahr Seeks Democratic Nomination for Maricopa County Attorney
Former Phoenix City Councilman Gary Peter Klahr announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Maricopa County Attorney. Klahr, 33, says he switched from Republican after surveys showed higher appeal with Democrats.
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Phoenix
Gary Peter Klahr
Maricopa County
Klahr
Newsmen
Widow Wins $3.57 Million Suit In Train Crossing Death
Melanie Lueck Skall announced Southern Pacific Railroad paid a widow and two children $3.57 million after William T. Lueck was killed crossing a Willcox railroad crossing in 1966. The settlement covers damages interest and legal fees on the original $3.08 million claim filed nearly nine years earlier.
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Tucson
Southern Pacific Railroad
Melanie Lueck Skall
William T. Lueck
Willcox
Phoenix bus drivers authorize strike over stalled talks
Union president Tom Pritchard said Phoenix bus drivers hold 100 percent authorization to strike if contract talks with Phoenix Transit Corp remain deadlocked after members rejected the company salary and benefit proposal at a Sunday meeting.
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Phoenix
Tom Pritchard
Phoenix Transit Corp
Pritchard
Canoeing Class Begins at Chaparral Park Pool
Scottsdale Parks and Recreation sponsors a six week canoeing course starting Saturday at Chaparral Park Pool. Sessions run 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays with a 3.50 dollar fee. Open to anyone 10 years or older. registration through the parks department.
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Scottsdale
School board member defends district spending in Scottsdale
Scottsdale School District administrator funding is defended by Paul Streich who notes district admin budgets are in the counties' lower decile. He cites 1975 cuts of 255000 and 1976 cuts of 26000, cites needed state mandates in special education, and says tax rate relief via overrides was denied.
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Scottsdale
Paul Streich
Maricopa County
Streich
Arson Suspected in Tempe Vacant Home Fire
A fire at 1415 N Scottsdale Rd Tempe destroyed a vacant 15 to 20 year old home valued at about 15000. Witnesses reported seeing someone set the blaze around 5 10 pm investigators from the Tempe Fire Department said. The property owner was Carrol Powell of Mesa. Tempe units fought the fire with Rural Metro stand by but jurisdiction was claimed by Tempe. Another Rural Metro blaze at Fifth Ave Findings and Things was caused by a defective ballast and confined to the first floor.
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Scottsdale Rd
Tempe
Donald Thumith
Scottsdale
Thumith
Carrol Powell
Mesa
Tempe Fire Department
Rural
Metro Fire Department
Metro
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Ave
Audubon official warns Orme Dam threatens bald eagles
Audubon Society official Robert Witzeman told lawmakers in Washington that the Orme Dam under CAP would destroy two to three pairs of southern bald eagles, the last in an eight state Southwest. He cited energy waste from uphill pumping and water loss to evaporation in four reservoirs, urging alternative sites and levee options along the Salt River to save the eagles.
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Central Arizona
Orme
Audubon Society
Robert Witzeman
Phoenix
Audubon
Arizona
Witzeman
CAP
Charleston
Bureau of Reclamation
Army Corps of Engineers
Salt River
Panel holds bill to speed delinquent tax collection
Phoenix lawmakers debate a Senate bill empowering the Unemployment Insurance Division to bypass civil action and obtain judgments against employers who fail to pay unemployment insurance tax. The House committee tabled the measure for a week amid clashes over funding and agency authority.
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Phoenix
House Human Resources Committee
Mac Carvalo
Scottsdale
Charles Vance
Vance
Sam McConnell
Carvalho
Appropriations Committee
Vancé
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