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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1973
Page
1
Washington subcommittee approved Senator Barry Goldwater's bill to expand Grand Canyon National Park but struck sections removing an area from the park and from Grand Canyon National Monument.
Robert Hehman 26 of Phoenix received 33 years to life for second degree murder in a shooting death tied to a death by own action pact with victim Steve Mason 19 of Chicago. Judge Frederic Heineman presided after Hehman pleaded guilty to the October slaying.
About 200 sheetrock installers in the Phoenix area continued a work slowdown Friday in apparent support of higher wages. Drywall installation had fallen to about 10 percent of normal after starting Tuesday, according to a contractor.
The State Air Pollution Control Hearing Board ruled American Smelting and Refining Co. must cut Hayden smelter emissions by 64.8 percent. The decision, issued Friday, follows testimony from a hearing held July 20.
A Tucson nurse Mary Edwards aged 31 was arrested Friday on murder charges in the July 12 death of Catherine Faulkner. Faulkner’s body was found after firefighters responded to multiple fires at her home. authorities call the fires arson.
A 51 year old Scottsdale woman told police she was raped in her own home after hearing a door open as she entered. The assailant grabbed her in the dark family room and assaulted her, with the report filed at 8 50 p.m. Friday.
The National Sam Ervin Fan Club reports rapid growth with eight founders saying membership reached 6,000. Most members hail from California Washington D C and North Carolina home state of Senator Sam Ervin.
Inmates firebombed a soap plant at McAlester prison and a peer was stabbed multiple times. Officials plan to move 632 inmates back to cells after the week-long rebellion amid 900 National Guardsmen on site. Four inmates died, and leaders were confined to isolated cells as repairs proceeded and security tightened.
A Phoenix superior court will hear a suit next Friday to stop the Brentwood street improvement district project in East Phoenix. Plaintiffs led by H D Weaver claim the ordinance was illegally passed as an emergency measure and that two arterial streets should be city funded. They warn a $7 000 ditch and paving would hurt a neighborhood park and shift costs to homeowners.
Washington reports that the Nixon administration will end all U.S. combat activity in Indochina by August 15, with bombing of Cambodia to cease by midnight August 14. Justice Douglas weighing a bid for an immediate end to bombing as Congress and the White House accept the deadline. Since 1961 two dozen U.S. deaths and several missing in Cambodia mark the long conflict.
Congress ends session until Sept 5 after approving a highway aid package to fund urban mass transit, a four year farm bill, and a 2.8 billion Transportation Department appropriation while delaying the minimum wage increase to avoid a pocket veto. Senate Leader Mansfield notes White House signals may veto.
The century old University Hotel in Greenwich Village collapsed on a Friday afternoon. Thirteen people were injured and six residents remained unaccounted for. Rescue teams searched the rubble while authorities noted no fire or explosion.
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