Farm labor rights urged to include secret ballots
The piece argues farm workers lack standard protections and face weak laws. It critiques sweetheart contracts and calls for amending Taft-Hartley to require secret ballots in farm labor elections, aligning rights with other American workers and supporting Cesar Chavez’s UFW efforts.
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Arizona
California
Teamsters
United Farm Workers
UFW
Cesar Chavez
John Steinbeck
Chavez
Judge Boyle Toughens Sentences for Attacks on Officers
City Magistrate Edward Boyle announced stricter measures against assaults on police. A young man received the maximum six months in county jail for attacking an officer, illustrating a push to support law and order.
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Edward Boyle
Boyle
Ecology awards posthumous prize promises $150,000 for environment
After Feb 8 1974 a new annual $150,000 prize will honor the greatest ten year contribution to environmental preservation funded by a $5 million trust from John C Tyler. California Governor Reagan announced it with Nixon sending praise as a nine university jury selects winners and governs changes to the program.
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Jeff Stansbury
Edward Flatta
John C. Tyler
Los Angeles
South Dakota
California
Ronald Reagan
Tyler
Nixon
Gov
Reagan
Pepperdine University
Bales
Gov. Reagan
Make Love Not War Turns Merchants of Death Into Love Empire
A satirical tale shows Merchants of Death, Inc. renaming to Merchants of Love, Inc. after a trainee argues profits rise with love. Propaganda fades violence as characters embrace peace and the punch line credits love as the second most powerful emotion.
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Arthur Hoppe
Merchants of Death, Inc
Baron von Kreep
Kreep Armament Works
Fred Frisbee
Frisbee
Isaiah
Merchants of Love, Inc
John Wayne
Masters
Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Marine Corps
France
Middle East
China
Trial judge to review plea bargains under new rules
The Arizona Supreme Court issued new Rules of Criminal Procedure effective September 1 1973 to empower trial judges to reject any plea bargain provisions deemed inappropriate A Maricopa County Bar Association liaison committee will monitor effects and consider recommendations if results do not meet expectations The association notes most criminal charges are resolved by plea bargains and supports ongoing editorial efforts for a fair criminal justice system
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Maricopa
United States Supreme Court
Arizona Supreme Court
Maricopa County Bar Association
State Bar Criminal Law Committee
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Public protest over defamation claims in Phoenix press
A concerned reader from Scottsdale denounces a Phoenix paper for sensational coverage of a Mesa man involved in a fatal Phoenix police officer crash. She claims the case received excessive inches of publicity, urging fair reporting and criticizing perceived bias and politics.
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Phoenix
Mesa
Superior
Roush
Beauty and the Beast remembered by Scottsdale Theatre for Children
A reader recollects STC history noting Christmas Nightingale as the first production while recalling Beauty and the Beast as an early show. The writer, Nancy Gaphardt, commends the weekend entertainment feature and thanks the paper for printing the period photos.
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Scottsdale
Beauty and the Beast
STC
Nancy Gaphardt
Big Brothers Thank Community for Support
The Big Brothers thank the newspaper for coverage in the general and editorial pages about their new Scottsdale office and the effort to recruit more men as Big Brothers to aid fatherless boys in the area.
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Scottsdale
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Copley Newspapers
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Blisher W.B
Doc’ Wright
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ariz
National Newspaper Association
Abizora Newspapers Association
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