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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1973
Page
1
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 80, improved today at UCLA Medical Center but remains in serious condition with blood clots in his lungs. He was hospitalized after emergency surgery when drug treatment failed. Medical center reports normal vital signs and Bradley resting, alert, and progressing satisfactorily.
A 20 year old Phoenix man is held in Scottsdale City Jail on charges of breaking into Appliance TV City at 1126 N Scottsdale. Det Ronald Dean says Clarence Thomson and two others carried TVs and stereo gear from the store through a rear wall hole at 4 am, with $2389 of merchandise seized. Thomson also linked to an earlier attempted break in at Romano's TV Inc on McDowell Road.
Navajo Tribal Council to reevaluate police department budget after a seven hour strike by officers. Council had planned cuts that would dismiss 18 workers and close up to 18 substations. officers returned to work as reconsideration was pledged.
Cochise County Sheriff Jim Wilson said a man found along Interstate 10 about 13 miles west of Benson was shot in the head twice with a .38-caliber weapon. The body was dumped off the road edge, possibly on Sunday, with the death ruled a homicide.
A gunman entered the Empress Theater at 2339 E. McDowell and demanded cash from manager Mario Martinez 19 and cashier Barbara Cox 20. Detectives estimate the loss at 300 dollars.
A six man team uncovered 130 welfare fraud cases in Phoenix area after background checks were allowed without consent. Special attorney general Michael S. Flam said more cases await court action and that reforms will tighten future eligibility while investigators plan neighbor and employer inquiries.
Cambodian troops report only scattered fighting on day three without U.S. air support as rebels withdraw deeper into the countryside. Refugees resume returns to Phnom Penh while highways 3 and 4 see movement. the capital remains crowded with about a million displaced residents.
A 30 year old Scottsdale woman said she was assaulted after her car ran out of gas on E Jackrabbit Road. A white male 18 to 19, about 5 7 gave threats with a knife before she wrestled it away. Another man, Louis Romo, 31 Tempe, suffered a possible broken jaw after being assaulted at the Old Corral Restaurant. Witnesses balked at testifying.
Sharon Elaine Holmes a 16 year old Sarasota girl drowned at Oscar Scherer State Park after entering a pond at night. Park rangers tracked and shot an 11 foot alligator linked to the fatal attack finding mangled body parts in the animal.
Divers finished a 26 day recovery effort on the Andrea Doria 250 feet deep off Nantucket claiming about 2 million dollars in goods found none of which were retrieved. They called the mission 90 percent successful and plan a future dive on the Lusitania using saturation diving to extend underwater work.
County officials will host a Monday briefing at 11 on flood control problems in Maricopa County. Invited and expected to attend are eight lawmakers and leaders including Sen. Paul Fannin Rep. Rhodes Rep. Conlan Rep. Steiger Sen. Jacquin Rep. Akers Sen. OConnor and Rep. Barr. The aim is to secure state and federal help for rapid flood control projects and coordinate a county program within ten years. The meeting takes place in the supervisors auditorium at 205 W. Jefferson.
Defense Minister Arthur Faulkner announced New Zealand has no plan to send a warship to protest upcoming French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. A frigate had monitored the first test near Mururoa Atoll, but lack of a support ship makes deployment impractical.
Former councilman Bob Jones challenged delay of drainage work on 64th Street while flood control in his 68th Street area is stalled. City Engineer Dan Raby cites Phoenixed cooperation needed. project two years away. Nearby remarks reference Councilmen Drinkwater and Hink as tensions over neighborhood priorities surface. A separate humorously toned note mentions mayor Bud Tims and a barroom incident ending with a syringe gag. L. B. Spacewater marks ten years leading parks system, to be honored.
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