Scottsdale Police Hold Auction of Evidence and Stolen Goods
About 25 people including off duty officers and city workers attended a Scottsdale police auction. Proceeds go to the city general fund. Items sold ranged from Thunderbird wine to hubcaps tools and a four speed auto transmission. The biggest challenge was the transmission with a 15 cent final bid and a joking remark from Detective Thomas Clark. All buyers paid in cash and buyers of firearms or alcohol had to be over 21.
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James Palmatier
Palmatier
Thomas Clark
Clark
Madame Chiang Kai-shek Visits Hawaii on US Trip
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Honolulu aboard a Chinese Air Force DC-6 en route to the United States for her first visit in six years. She was greeted at Hickam Air Force Base by senior American officials and local Chinese leaders and told reporters she travels at friends' urging to see progress since her last visit.
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Honolulu
UPI
Chiang Kai-shek
Hawaii
United States
Madame Chiang
Republic of China
Hickam Air Force Base
The
Gemini 5 crew sing during spaceflight and other regional notices
Astronaut Charles Conrad sang aboard Gemini 5 with Gordon Cooper after radio jests. In Jackson Mississippi a white minister is hospitalized with buckshot wounds after an ambush near his apartment. In Moscow a top Soviet official discusses a soft landing on the moon. Congress member Clarence Brown dies at 70 in Ohio. Arcadia High student Dan Widner, badly burned in an explosion, is listed in critical condition.
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Jackson
Miss
Moscow
Arcadia High School
Dan Widner
Good Samaritan Hospital
Road right of way sought for McKellips Road extension
Maricopa County board approves hiring Salt River Indian Reservation residents as right of way assistants for the four mile two lane McKellips Road extension from Hayden Road to Country Club Drive in Mesa. Design funds exist but construction likely next fiscal year. Board also renews Turquoise Building office rental option at 420 dollars monthly and approves a 4455 dollar change order for Cocopah School and a 956 dollar payment to Martyn and Roberts Architects.
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McKellips Rd
Scottsdale
Mesa
Hayden Rd
Country Club Dr
Salt River
Fred E. Kallof
Turquoise
E. 1St St
Scottsdale Justice Court
Halladay Construction Co
Cocopah
Martyn & Roberts Architects
Weather outlook shows extreme heat through Tuesday
The forecast calls for continued hot conditions with highs around 102 degrees today and Tuesday, and a low near 70 tonight.
Discrimination Draws Protest At San Francisco Beach
In San Francisco, two young women and a man jumped into the chilly bay at an aquatic park with hundreds cheering. Police charged them with swimming without suitable bathing dress as Shirley Hisiedel, 21, wearing a flowered jailhouse dress, argued for nude beaches like Europe.
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San Francisco
UPI
San Francisco Bay
Shirley’ Hisiedel
Europe
Water brings state harmony in Colorado River hearing
Western lawmakers unite to back a billion-dollar move to pump Colorado River water into central Arizona. Arizona and California seek 2.5 million acre-feet annually by 1980. Aspinall voices caution on water supply. Udall hails Colorado basin pact as a new spirit of cooperation toward the Central Arizona Project.
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Washington
UPI
Colorado
Arizona
California
Wayne N. Aspinall
D-Coro
Morris K. Udall
D.ariz
Colorado Basin
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
New Mexico
Pay raise is hit by House committee proposal
Postal officials testified that House Post Office Committee recommendations for federal pay raises far exceed the 3 percent request by President Johnson. Postmaster General Gronouski and Assistant Postmaster General Murphy told the Senate committee the House bill would cost 336.4 million dollars in the first year, 152.4 million more than the administration plan.
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Washington
UPI
House Committee
Johnson
John A. Gronouski
Richard J Murphy
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
House Post Office Committee
Gemini 5 adjusts orbit on third day mission
Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad boost orbit with maneuvering rockets to lower the high point, report all systems go for an eight day flight. They enter the 33rd orbit over the southeast U S as mission control keeps them in space for another day despite busy workload.
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Houston
Charles Conrad
Gordon Cooper
Conrad
United States
Mission Control
West Texas
New Mexico
Cooper
City finance director Don Van Dyke resigns after 20 years
City Finance Director Don Van Dyke announces his resignation after two decades in the post. He says he will join a private firm handling municipal bond sales and will relocate to California. Van Dyke, 33, joined Scottsdale in 1963 after Phoenix and Tempe postings and is ASU trained with an MA in public administration. He helped establish a central purchasing office and standard account classifications. City Manager Bill Donaldson notes no replacement named yet.
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Don van Dyke
van Dyke
E. Montebello
Allantion
Clicclve
California
Scottsdale
Phoenix
Division of Research and Budget
Tempe
Raton
N.M
Arizona State University
ASU
Bill Donaldson
Epidemic Deaths Rise After Mexican Floods
Flooding across central Mexico for 20 days triggers an intestinal disease outbreak. Fatalities reach 27 with five more deaths in Guanajuato and four children plus a man in Nayarit. Two bodies found as waters receded. About 200 hospitalized in Tepic region and 50 sick in a small town.
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Mexico
Tepic
Goldwater Vacationing in Newport Beach During Recovery
Former Sen. Barry Goldwater rests in Newport Beach after spine surgery in July. A spokesman says he will stay through Labor Day, then return to Phoenix to resume campaign appearances. He warned riots could occur elsewhere and urged job training for all, noting African Americans seeking better living conditions.
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Newport Beach
Calif
UPI
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Phoenix
GOP
Los Angeles
Air Force hits North Vietnam near Chinese border
U S Air Force jets conducted 87 sorties hitting rail bridges and the Lang hydroelectric complex 30 miles from the Chinese frontier and near 80 miles southwest of Hanoi. Bombers targeted Highway 6, bridges near Hanoi, and other northern targets while Navy planes struck a Hanoi facility and three bridges. Paratroopers and helicopter columns aided a Mekong Delta convoy reaching Kontum as Viet Cong losses mounted.
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UPS
China
Viet Nam
Air Force
Aghway
U. S
Ban Thch
Hanoi
Oriskany
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Ohio Republican
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Highway 6
Pdne
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South
South Viet Nam
Kontum
Mekong-Rivan- Galle
1St. Infantry Division
Nha Trang
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