City backs off street project after legal snag
City officials plan to withdraw a disputed paving and sidewalk district after City Attorney Roy Petch confirms a fatal mismatch between the map and real property description. Residents and protesters signaled willingness to cooperate on a revised plan after meetings with the chamber of commerce.
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Roy Petch
Scottsdale Roads
Arizona Canal
Ken McDonald
Bill Schrader
Bob McNutt
Chamber of Commerce
Don Chambers
Major Annexations Roil Greater Scottsdale Area
Phoenix plans a 15 square mile expansion east of its current limits including Arcadia and Camelback Mountain to reach Cactus Road. Paradise Valley seeks to annex north toward Scottsdale Road, with petitions cited as signed by 7 percent of area property values. Scottsdale distance petitions circulate around Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard as officials take no active role. Mexico arrest report follows.
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Phoenix
Thasetsida
Anna
Paradise Valley
Scottsdale Road
Indian Bend
Shea Boulevard
32Nd Street
Arcadia
62Nd Street
Camelback Mountain
Tatum Boulevard
Cactus Road
Paraise Valley Country Club
Shea
Fugitive Sought In Kidnapping And Assault
Police and sheriff's deputies comb the Yuma Valley by air and on foot for Richard Lynn Wright an 18-year-old Mesa man accused of abducting Mrs Janette Farrar 21 of Phoenix and taking a Yuma police officer prisoner in a kidnapping and rape attempt case.
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East McKinley Street
Phoenix
William Burke
Wright
Farrar
Yuma
Burke
Richard Frazer
Frazer
San Luis
UPI
Yuma Valley
Mesa
Richard Lynn Wright
Janette Farrar
Scottsdale Rejects Phoenix Control of Joint Sewer Plan
Scottsdale Tempe and Mesa officials flatly rejected a proposal to hand over local sewer control to Phoenix for a 90 million metropolitan system aimed at serving all four cities through 1990. City leaders cited complexity and loss of autonomy, while engineers argued for a neutral agency.
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Scottsdale
Metropolitan Sewer District
Phoenix
Tempe
Mesa
Mort Kimsey
John A. Carollo
Art Petersen
State Tax Rate Raised To 1.44 Per 100 In Arizona
Arizona's property tax rate for 1961 62 rose 12 cents to 1.44 dollars per 100 of assessed value. The increase was announced by W E Bissett of the State Tax Commission. For a 3000 dollar property this year the bill rises about 3 60 to about a penny a day. The new rate is based on the legislature's total appropriations of 115 978 461 dollars.
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Phoenix
UPI
Arizona
W. E. Bissett
State Tax Commission
Bissett
Cause of Norwegian plane crash remains undetermined
Stavanger Norway Friday the head of the Norwegian investigating commission said the crash that killed 34 English schoolboys Wednesday night has no determined cause yet. Col W O Christie noted that the twin engine plane and its instruments were badly burned delaying findings.
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Stavanger
Norway
UPID
W. O. Christie
Red Army Faces Berlin Ring as Cold War Tensions Rise
West Berlin sits inside a steel ring of Red Army troops and new ground to air missiles. Up to 900 tanks and 44 500 soldiers gird the city in 14 garrisons ready to strike. McNamara notes East Germany’s armed forces could prove unreliable in war or uprising.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
East Berlin
U.S
East Scottsdale Group Pushes Ward Elections Proposal
The East Scottsdale Citizens Association will urge a city charter provision requiring ward elections for city councilmen at a Monday meeting. The group, meeting at Bob Conroy’s home, plans to press the board of freeholders and expand its 7,000 homeowner membership east of Scottsdale from Tempe to the Arizona Canal.
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East Scottsdale Citizens Association
Bob Conroy
N. 81St Way
Jaycees
Scottsdale
Tempe
Arizona Canal
State Corporation Commission
Tom Hunter
Arizona Homeowners Association
Scottsdale High School
Marshal Koniev Appointment Signals West Warning
East German Communists linked Marshal Ivan Koniev's Soviet command in East Germany to a Western warning. The regime pressed a propaganda push to curb mass refugee departures to West Berlin as 2,017 fled, bringing the month’s total to nearly 18,000. The Reds said Koniev’s 22 divisions and the East German army would defend the Soviet zone and raise combat readiness ahead of potential modern war.
Rusk Says Parleys On Berlin Certain
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said negotiations between East and West over Berlin are certain though timing and method are unknown. He spoke after a Friday meeting with President Kennedy, noting Allied leaders understand talks will occur before Berlin reaches a head.
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Washington
UPI
Berlin
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Kennedy
Minor Fires Do Little Damage
A stove fire at Leo Skladzien home 8244 E. Vernon caused about 75 dollars in damage yesterday evening Scottsdale firemen reported. They also responded to a vacant lot at 1913 Seth Street where a pile of lawn clippings burned.
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Leo Skladzien
E. Vernon
Scottsdale
Seth Street
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