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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1971
Page
1
Police are investigating the rape of a 38 year old cocktail hostess who says two men assaulted her near Granite Reef Drive and McDonald Street after midnight. She described one attacker as tall and slim with a soft voice, wearing blue jeans, who threatened to drown her son.
Two male teenagers are suspects in a theft at the Paul E. Zeibig home on 7543 E. Pierce. Police say between 9:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday the youths entered the house and removed $168 in cash and three watches from two bedrooms.
Services for Mrs. Bessie Sampson 88 a Salt River Reservation native were held today at Salt River Assembly of God Church She died Wednesday at Phoenix Indian Medical Center She is survived by 11 grandchildren 34 great grandchildren and nine great great grandchildren Burial was at the reservation cemetery Funeral arrangements were by Sunnyside Mortuary.
Four persons received minor injuries Friday at 3 25 p m in a bree cars collision at Hayden Road and Garfield. Police said James S Carroll 21 of 7734 E Cypress pulled from Garfield into the path of Mitchell Carmen 63 northbound on Hayden Road. Carroll was cited for failure to yield the right of way from a stop sign. Injured were Pamela Boone 21 Pamela Gwinn 18 and David Denyess 19 the Carroll vehicle passengers.
Police identified two new victims in Phoenix as Thomas Robinson aged 44 and Herman Wachs aged 60 both beaten to death in an abandoned Pullman car on a downtown siding. The city has tied these deaths to earlier slayings in the area including Modesto Mendez and an unidentified February victim.
The Scottsdale Elks Lodge 2148 at 6398 E Oak invites the public to a cowboy steak dinner at 7 p.m. followed by a western dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. A $3.50 donation is requested.
The Paderewski Choral Society presents its annual Polish songs concert tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Pulaski Hall 4331 EB McDowell Rd. Admission is 2 dollars.
President Nixon told ASNE editors that U S forces will remain in Southeast Asia until the last war prisoner is freed and that a total withdrawal is the goal. He rejected a fixed 1972 withdrawal deadline and announced a 100,000 troop reduction planned for May to December, bringing forces to 184,000. He defended freeing Lt. Calley and said he would directly handle final review to quell public fears without passing the buck.
A U S table tennis squad returned from Communist China after a week long trip that thawed Sino American ties. Premier Chou En Lai called the visit a new page while Nixon floated a future China visit and expanded trade talks followed the ping pong team's trip.
East Pakistani rebels led by Nazrul Islam announced the declaration of Bangla Desh independence in a grove near Kushtia as Pakistan planes bombed the provisional government HQ at Chundanga near the Indian border killing fifty civilians and wounding one hundred.
A 36 year old housewife told police a man in his late 20s exposed himself Friday at 1 15 p m. while she worked in her front yard. He drove up parked across the street near Granada and 60th Pl opened a car door asked for directions then exposed himself as she walked toward the vehicle.
Henry King a 54-year-old wages clerk admitted stealing 720 dollars from his firm by falsifying computer accounts He was fined 240 dollars and ordered to repay the amount within two months His attorney said King believed the computer was an impersonal machine and that many people claimed it could not fail
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