Scottsdale Annexation Dispute Over Valuation Figures Reaches Impasse
Attorneys in the Scottsdale East Side annexation case remain deadlocked as they recount valuations for a six square mile area annexed December 5, 1961. Disagreement centers on whether utilities counts were included and if 50 percent of assessed valuation was met. Judge Nabours has ordered recounts, with hearings likely to resume.
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Scottsdale East Side
Superior Court
Scottsdale
Scottsdale Road
Pima Road
MckKellips Road
Chaparral
Phoenix
Tucson
Mesa
Yuma
William Nabours
Bidet
Gures
Brewer
Arizona Public Service Company
Mountain States Telephone Group
Total and Telegraph Company
Kamps
Motorola Inc
Motorola
Richard Kamps
Charles Brewer
Asistant
Nabours
Scottsdale Board Approves Finance and Procurement Post
The Scottsdale school board greenlights a new director of finance and procurement to be funded in 1963-64 with a 8000 to 12000 dollar salary. The post will consolidate accounting and purchasing under one leader and accompany department reorganizations and staff reclassifications.
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Scottsdale
al Flowers
Flowers
Food Service
Charles Holt
Transportation Department
Scottsdale Education Committee
Bill Pedersen
Food Services
Chicago
Arcadia High School
Paradise Valley Considers Utility Franchise for APS
The Paradise Valley Town Council asked APS to seek a utility franchise, citing built in fees in rates and potential $5000 yearly revenue. If APS applies a public vote will decide extending service. other changes include new city code sections and annual business fees, plus renewed Little League contracts at ten schools.
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Paradise Valley
Arizona Public Service Company
Kiva School
APS
Death Toll Rises In West Virginia Coal Mine Blast
Fourteen miners were found dead at Clinchfield No. 2 mine in Dola as eight others remained missing after an explosion likely caused by methane or coal dust. Sixty survivors came to the surface as rescuers worked 330 feet underground amid grim expectations and a mortuary supply was requested for the dead.
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Dola
W. Va
UPI
Clinchfield Coal Company
Compass No. 2
Monogah
John Morabito
Anti Castro raiders bomb Havana refineries in daylight attack
In Havana and Washington reports clash over a twin engine raid on oil facilities on Havana's eastern outskirts. A freelance writer named Alexander Rorke claims two unnamed Americans and a Cuban participated from a so far undisclosed organization named U S Freedom Fighters. He says bombs were homemade and failed to cause damage.
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Miami
Fla
UPI
Havana
Esso
Shell
Washington
Alexander Rorke
Rorke
U.S. Freedom Fighters
Cuba
Havana Radio
State Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Khrushchev Affirms Laos Stand Amid Laos Fighting
Khrushchev reaffirmed support for Laos independence and the 1961 Kennedy accord after W Averell Harriman met him in Moscow with a Kennedy message. The Kremlin joint statement with the United States praised Geneva Laos accords as fighting continued between Pathet Lao and right wing forces led by Gen. Phoumi Nosavan near Vientiane.
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Kennedy
Laos
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Kremlin
Vienna
Pathet Lao
Phoumi Nosavan
Theatre blasphemy rapped by school board member
Dr Steward Flaschen urged principals to review Broadway musical scripts for blasphemous lines after Scottsdale High School staged Oklahoma. He called for edits where necessary noting a scene where a lead actor yells God almighty near a hot stove.
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Steward Flaschen
Dr. Flaschen
Oklahoma
Scottsdale High School
Weather Summary With Cloudiness and Winds
Considerable cloudiness today and tonight with occasional showers. Partly cloudy tomorrow. Windy and cool today with a high near 75 and a low around 51 tomorrow morning. Yesterday highs 78 and a low of 58. Precip yesterday 0.33 inches. Sunrise 5 45 a m Sunset 7 07 p m.
NL Umpires Ordered to Relax Balk Rule
Cincinnati Ohio. President Warren Giles of the National League instructed umpires to relax the balk rule. After polling managers, he ordered a set position pitcher to come to a stop but drop the requirement of at least one second. This aligns NL enforcement with the American League.
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Cincinati, Ohio
UPI
Warren Giles
National League Today
National League
Giles
Paradise Valley School Suit Narrowed to Ex-Superintendent
Former seventh grade teacher Alice Bendheim sues Paradise Valley Elementary District over a promised letter of recommendation. The district and its board are dropped as defendants, leaving ex superintendent T F E Morgan as sole defendant. Morgan resigned in October after disputes over her ACLU activities and a requested full factual letter.
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Paradise Valley
T. F E. Morgan
Morgan
Alice Graicourt Bendheim
Supreme Court rules government liable for damages in Arizona
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled state and local governments can be sued for workers negligence, abolishing governmental immunity in all pending, future, and not-yet-filed cases. Justice Lockwood authored the unanimous decision, signaling a radical shift with broad implications and possible emergency considerations with state officials weighing impact.
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Phoenix
UPI
Arizona Supreme Court
Government cancer expert urges changing cigarettes rather than smokers
Dr. Kenneth M. Endicott of the National Cancer Institute told a House subcommittee that efforts focus on removing cancer-causing factors from cigarettes or countering them with additives. The transcript includes unrelated items about a lawsuit against the Highway Department and a traffic incident on U.S. 80 near Tucson in 1955.
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Kenneth M. Endicott
National Cancer Institute
House
Appropriations
Showers Spread Across Arizona With Clearing Trend
United Press International reports scattered showers in Arizona with a clearing trend by night. Rain fell Thursday from a trace in Yuma to .78 inch in Maverick, with .35 inch at Paradise Valley station. Yearly moisture stands at 2.48 inches, about 30 percent below average. Phoenix downtown saw .50 inch and Tucson .32.
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Arizona
U.S. Weather Bureau
Phoenix
Yuma
Maverick
Willard Greene
Paradise Valley
Greene
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