Scottsdale Boy Burned In Gasoline Explosion
Arcadia High School track star Dan Widner, 17, in very critical condition at Good Samaritan Hospital after a gasoline explosion at a Scottsdale home. Billy Schultz, 14, suffered lesser burns while trying to save Widner. both youths were cleaning a storage room with gasoline.
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Arcadia
Good Samaritan Hospital
Scottsdale
Dan Widner
E. Earl
Billy Schultz
62Nd St
Widner
William E. Schultz
62Nd -St
David Cratte
Cratte
Good Samaritan
Scottsdale Baptist Hospital
Schultz
Good Saguaritan
Murray Robertson
George Adama
Dan Widmer
Curfew Lifts as Los Angeles Riot Abates
Los Angeles ends military curfew in a 46 square mile riot zone after six days of mob violence. Governor Brown and Gen Hill say the low violence level allows peace, with troops still at Memorial Coliseum and police busy with false alarms as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is set to arrive to lead civil rights efforts.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Edmund G. Brown
Roderick Hill
California National Guard
Hill
Memorial Coliseum
Coliseum
Pitas
Samanlpe
Martin Luther King:Jr
Moy
Boy, 11 shoots nuns and children in schoolyard
An 11 year old with a 22 caliber rifle opened fire in a Chicago schoolyard wounding six children and two nuns. Police quickly apprehended him and handed the case to juvenile authorities. None of the victims were reported in serious condition and were taken to a nearby facility.
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Chicago
UPI
John Pratapas
Respect class gets support for civic education course
Dr. Howard Seymour, Phoenix high schools superintendent, urges a required civic education course to curb increasing disrespect for authority. He cites the Los Angeles riots as evidence and calls for a program covering safety health education and citizenship responsibility.
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Howard Seymour
Phoenix
Seymour
Los Angeles
Hess
Manry finishes solo Atlantic crossing in Tinkerbelle
Robert Manry, a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, completed a 3200 mile solo voyage in the 13 foot Tinkerbelle, arriving in Falmouth England after 11 weeks at sea. Despite storms and hallucinations from stay awake pills he became the smallest craft to sail non stop across the Atlantic. Thousands cheered as the tiny boat entered the harbor and Manry reunited with his family aboard a support vessel.
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Falmouth
England
Robert Manry
Manry
Cleveland
Mass
Tinkerbelle
offFalmouth
Atlantic
John Riding
N¢syport
R.I
Lizard Point
English Channel
Council to hear resolutions for three improvement projects
The city council meets at 8 p.m. in the council chambers to consider resolutions of intention for three improvement districts worth about 500000. Projects include 5th Avenue right of way expansion costing 75000 to 100000, Hayden Road widening to four lanes at about 400000, and Osborn Street widening about 25000 with property owners to pay roughly half.
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E. Main St
George Long
5Th. Ave
Winfield Scott
Hayden Rd
Camelback
McDowell
Osborn
Ken McDonald
5Th Ave
Scottsdale Rd
Indian School
McDonald
City files suit over price signs at Gorway station
City Attorney Osmond Burton Jr. filed in superior court a petition seeking removal of three non conforming price signs at the Gorway station on McDowell Hayden road operated by Texas Independent Oil Co. The signs exceed the two by three feet limit and the station reportedly has two signs on McDowell and one on Hayden. The city also cites a second suit over the former sign ordinance involving Texaco at 4935 Granite Reef Rd. and notes the judgment in that case was not signed.
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McDowell - Hayden Rd
Superior Court
Osmond Burton Jr
Texas, Independent Oil Co
Gorway
Algo
McDowell
Hayden Rd
Paul Mathe
Texaco
Granite Reef Rd
Burton
Charles Stidhham
Favor
Mathe
Mystery surrounding Lake Michigan airliner crash deepens
FBI begins probe after United Airlines Flight 389 from New York to Chicago disintegrates in a fiery crash over Lake Michigan. Bodies and debris recovered as investigators consider sabotage and large insurance purchases aboard the Boeing 727.
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Chicago
UPI
Lake Michigan
United
New York City
FBI
Coast
Lake
Michigan
North Shore
O’hare
United Air Lines
New York
Coast Guard
Gerald Applegate
Applegate
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Woodbine
Melville W. Towle
Wyckoff
N.J
Roger
Scottsdale board to vote on stiff penalties for student rule violations
Scottsdale School Board will consider a strict penalties list for rule violations at the three district high schools. The proposals cover damage to property ignition of fireworks health and safety offenses smoking drinking and related suspensions or expulsions. The panel also weighs hiring Martyn Roberts Architects for 2 500 retainer and 10 an hour for school year remodeling work.
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Scottsdale
New Apache
Charles Holt
Arcadia
Coronado
Holt
Martyn & Roberts, Architects
Phoenix
Paradise Valley names Langton as new district superintendent
Dr. Richard Langton of Tacoma Washington was seated as superintendent of Paradise Valley Schools in an $18 000 annual post after a special board session last week. He accepted a three year contract last night replacing Dr. Matt Hanhila who resigned to become assistant dean at Glendale Junior College extension. Langton has been dean of students at Pacific Lutheran University and previously led the South Central School District in Seattle and the Cheney School District. He holds degrees from Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Washington and has led state and regional school associations. Langton is married with three sons ages 14 11 and 8.
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Richard’Langton
Tacoma
Wash
Paradise Valley Schools
Paradise Valley Board of Trustees
Langton
Laington
Matt Hanhila
Glendale Junior College Extension
Pacific Lutheran University
Firearms sales surge in California after weekend
California handgun purchases rose 250 percent last weekend, state Atty. Gen. Thomas C. Lynch reported. Among 2,038 handguns sold, 1,305 were in Los Angeles Riverside Orange and San Bernardino counties, with only 68 sold to Black buyers.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
Thomas C. Lynch
Riverside
Orange
San Bernardino
Arizona Rain Totals From Night Storms Across State
Weather reports show widespread rainfall with 12 inches in several areas. South-central Ray recorded 2.03 inches in 90 minutes, Pleasant Valley near Payson 2.45 inches, Diamond Point 1.15, Globe Ranger Station 1.06, and signals near NGlobe 1.61. Other totals include 0.71 at Ft Huachuca, 0.73 at Williams AFB, 0.65 at McNarr, and 0.46 at Douglas per U S Weather Bureau.
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Ly United Press International
Arizona
Ray
Pleasant Valley
Payson
Diamond Point
Globe Ranger
Signal
Lookout
Nglobe
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ft. Huachu
Williams Afb
Monthan Afb
McNarr 9
Douglas
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L.A
Samuel Yorty
U.S. Community Relations Service
Los ‘Angeles
Respect
Richard Langton
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