Seventeen? No Sixteen Birthday Soars Into Flight Warps Clouds
Steven Larsen a Saguaro High School junior celebrates his sixteenth birthday by pursuing soaring licenses for glider and pilot training. He soloed after eight flights, works at Scottsdale Municipal, flies from Sky Harbor and Sierra Estrella Sailport, and plans to join the Air Force Academy aiming to become a fighter pilot. He notes gliding uses few instruments and offers greater air control, with flights reaching up to 12,500 feet and speeds between 40 and 80 mph.
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Steven Larsen
Saguaro High School
Arizona
Texas
Steve
James Larsen
Scottsdale Municipal
Sky
Saguaro High
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Col
Air Force
Wholesale food prices rise sharply in July
Wholesale food prices jumped in July with a 3.2 percent rise, the largest in 17 months, while unemployment held at 5 percent. Meat eggs and produce led gains, live poultry up 15.1 percent, eggs 11.2 percent, fruits and vegetables 6.7 percent, and livestock 4.1 percent.
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Washington
UPI
Bureaus of Labor Statistics
Scottsdale teachers seek new coverage over insurance rate jump
Scottsdale teachers study options after a claimed 57 percent premium rise, with personnel considering a new group for insurance. SEA officials say current carrier California Western presents high rates and a special committee is evaluating proposals from insurers and brokers.
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Scottsdale
Tom Carey
Scottsdale Education Association
SEA
California Western
Carey
Gabriel Reuben
Scottsdale Board of Education
Green & Galbraith Inc
Aray Leaf the Sea
Weather outlook shows sunny, cooler weekend with dust
Mostly sunny this afternoon and Saturday with a chance of evening or nighttime undershowers and blowing dust. Slightly cooler. Highs near 104 and lows in the lower Bas.
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Bas
Mayor Bud Tims meets Army Corps on Indian Bend Wash
Mayor Bud Tims interrupted his Los Angeles vacation to discuss flood control with Col. John Roper of the Army Corps of Engineers. The talks center on expediting studies that could trigger $4.5 million in wash construction to ease Scottsdale floods and influence overall plans to be presented to the city council on August 14.
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Bud. Tims
Los Angeles
John Roper
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Indian Bend Wash
Tims
Roper
Scottsdale
U.S
Bremer Found Guilty in Wallace Shooting Case
Arthur H. Bremer, 21, Milwaukee-born former busboy, convicted on all nine counts for the may 15 1972 shooting of Gov. George C. Wallace in Laurel Maryland. Jury found him sane at the time. faces up to 125 years. defense faulted Wallace security and Bremer’s psychology.
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Arthur H. Bremer
George C. Wallace
Milwaukee
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Laurel
Bremer
Maryland
Arthur A. Marshall Jr
Benjamin Lipsitz
Prince George’s County
Lipsitz
United States
Russia
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Marshall
Prince George's County
Stabbinn
Bremer Marston
Nixon
Scottsdale planners weigh limits on McDowell Mountains development
Consultants urged keeping the McDowell Mountains undeveloped to protect natural beauty. They proposed limits on slopes above 15 degrees, low densities near North Scottsdale, and a five year barrier from the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct. They warned of traffic and service strains and favored directing commercial growth west of Scottsdale Road. Public hearings expected in 30 to 45 days.
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Scottsdale
Gordon Davis
Wilsey and Ham
City Planning Commission
Davis
Phoenix
Camelback Mountain
Scote
Central Arizona Project
Scottsdale Road
Bell Road
Salt Tiwari India
Ae Get Davis
Hayden and
Pima
Kaiser Aetna McCormick Ranch
Shea Boulevard
McDowell Mountain
Scottsvile Airport
Flooding and heavy rains strike midlands
Thunderstorms swept the midwest on Thursday night causing flash floods. In Carbondale Michigan three and a half inches of rain fell in one hour, backing up sewers and flooding streets. Residents used canoes as water rose to car hoods. Two injuries were reported and officials said the waters were receding early today.
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United Press International
Carbondale
Dike Project Set for 1974 Start in Scottsdale
City Manager Dale Carter announced federal officials expect construction of a 10 mile flood control dike along Bell Road from 40th Street to Taliesin West to begin in 1974 and finish two years later. The dike will protect the Central Arizona Project aqueduct and retain surface water in North Scottsdale as part of the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt plan.
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Central Arizona
Scottsdale
Indian Bend Wash
Dale Carter
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
40Th Street
Taliesin West
McDowell Mountains
Central Arizona Project
Bell Road
Carter
Boys' Club Drive Nets Over Four Thousand Dollars
Scottsdale officials report more than $4,000 raised in the first two days of a drive to collect $195,000 for a North Scottsdale clubhouse beside Chaparral Park. Club president H R Fenstermacher says talks to civic groups will stress the need for a facility to guide about 4,000 boys aged 7 to 17, keeping them out of trouble.
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Scottsdale
H. R
Sonny) Fenstermacher
Boys’ Club
Civic
Cocopah Principal Resigns for District Post
Cocopah School Principal Thomas Wood resigns to take a district principal job in Villa Park Michigan. The Scottsdale School Board will review his resignation effective August 30 at a Tuesday Education Center meeting. Wood has been among seven district administrators to depart since January and arrived at Cocopah in 1970 after earlier leading a racially mixed Evanston Illinois school.
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Cocopah
Thomas Wood
Villa Park
Scottsdale
Wood
Evanston
McGovern Names Muskie as Top VP Pick but Keeps Options Open
Senator George S. McGovern signaled Edmund S. Muskie as his likely Democratic vice presidential choice while declining to name a single highest candidate during a 25 minute news conference.
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Washington
George S. McGovern
Edmund S. Muskie
McGovern
Firefighters Tighten Ring on Big Sur Blaze
A 1,000 man firefighting force with hand tools axes shovels and chainsaws moved to close a two mile gap in lines around the Big Sur forest fire. The blaze was 70 percent encircled and nearing containment.
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Big Sur
Calif
Reveles Faults Phoenix Tract Home Construction
Bob Reveles, a fourth district congressional candidate, told reporters that sloppy construction is widespread in Phoenix area tract homes. He said his prior disclosures show the problem is the rule rather than the exception in many such homes.
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Phoenix
Bob Reveles
Reveles
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