Groups offer help not jail to drug users in Phoenix
In Phoenix efforts shift from punishment to treatment for drug users. CODAC and partners provide nonharassment support with volunteer doctors and tranquil environments while groups like Terros and Teen Challenge operate at venues and through therapy or religion. The move marks a community step forward from prior police-only responses.
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Craig Tribken Saguaro
Phoenix
Terros
Teen Challenge
Alcoholics Anonymous
New Leo Club and SOS form at Arcadia high school
Arcadia students organize two new groups the Leo Club and SOS Stamp Out Stupidity. The Leo Club affiliated with Biltmore Lions aims to serve school and community with sponsor Felix Perera. SOS started by Diane Ransier and partners with Cope With Dope to combat drug use through fundraising and educational outreach.
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Arcadia
Leo Club
S.O.S
Biltmore Lions Club
Kiwanis
Club
Felix Perera
Smarts International
Timepiece dream drives Arcadia senior to clockmaking glory
Gary Himes, a senior at Arcadia, built a grand father clock winning first in the Arizona State Fair industrial arts division. He started Oct 2 1968 carved walnut parts in a year then traveled to Germany for inside components and flew to Chicago to fetch them. He completed the clock by oa 36 and aims to pursue industrial arts, possibly clockmaking as a profession.
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Gary Himes
Arcadia
Gary
Germany
Black Forest
Chicago
Artist creates confronting war scene at ASU display
Fernando Navarro, ASA fine arts major, stages a dramatic installation criticizing war turning people into symbolic figures. The exhibit at 832 N 52nd Street features casualties and a sacrificial scene while a mural proclaims Liberty of the Mind and Justice and Truth. it sparked unrest and even threats.
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Fernando Navarro
ASA -Fine Arts
52Nd Street
Najarro
Yajarro
Genegl
Vietnam
Navarro
Eh Asu
Nsjarro
ASU
Arcadia High to Present Arcadians On Stage
Arcadia Fine Arts Department hosts Arcadians On Stage on December 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. in the auditorium. The concert choir of about 80 students plus 20 dancers and a 60-member crew rehearse since October for a two hour musical revue featuring songs from Sweet Charity on the Roof Oliver Guys and Dolls and numbers by Anthony Newly. Harold Millsop directs with Joanne Yeo as choreographer and Bill Davis stage manager. Tickets are $1 and available at the door.
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Arcadia Fine Arts Department
Arcadians
Oliver
Anthony Newly
Harold Millsop
Joanne Yeo
Bill Davis
Dope Stop teen coordinator answers questions on drugs
Norman Hovda speaks about test availability for drugs, costs of use, and help options. He describes personal history of drug use, opinions on legalization, and willingness to aid youths who ask for help.
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Norman Hovda
Hovda
Synanon
Daytop
Grase
Laureate seeks college poetry manuscripts for award
The annual Laureate anthology invites all college students to submit poetry with no length style or subject restrictions. First prize is 500. Books publish in April and sell for 10. Send entries to Laureate P O Box 307 Cedarhurst NY 11516 with self addressed stamped envelope for returns.
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Laureate
P.O
Cedarhurst
N.Y
Coronado Thespians Stage Evening of One Acts
Coronado’s arts department shifts to an Evening of One Acts featuring six shorter works by beginning theater arts students. James Newcomer’s hour classes present a group of one liners and satires, while Ken Howell directs an original play inspired by a mysterious sugar incident. Other classes perform sketches and songs with Las Cantantes and ACE leading the program.
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Coronado
James Newcomer
Ken Howell
Howell
Judie Flatt
John Lloyd
Scott Johnson
Eugene Manson
Oliver
Las Cantantes
Vaughn Williams
Baska
Berstein
Dale Weiss
Ace
Newcomer
Local theaters show mixed film ratings for teens
In Scottsdale two of three indoor theaters display X rated films for high school students while the Catheback Mall shows R rated Easy Rider. The Round-Up Drive-In screens cowboy and other titles, and the closest Phoenix Theaters offer M rated movies at Thomas Mall and Cine Capri.
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Scottsdale
Women Students of Mesa CC Plan Duo State Convention
The Associated Women Students of Mesa Community College host the Duo State Convention for 90 coeds from Arizona and New Mexico at Sky Harbor Travelodge Phoenix. Keynote speaker Mrs Veon Shupe, MCC instructor Robert Smith to speak at lunch, and Mrs Grady Gammage to close. Josie Solis chairs the conference.
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Associated ‘Women Students
Mesa Community College
Arizona
New Mexico
Sky Harbor
Phoenix
Veon Shupe
Robert Smith
Grady ‘Gammage
Josie Solis
Bertha , Landrum
Mesa
AWS
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Community Organization For Drug Abuse Control
CODAC
Maricopa County Academy of Science
Leo
Sos
Diane Ransier
Jane Plecas
Cope Stop
Terry Pitts
Coronado Thespians
Coronadd
Audienc
Mesa CC
MCC
Flagstaff
LBS Institute
Catains
Amber
Fam
Saguaro
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Della Cousey
Dan Foreman
Joe Esile
Painter
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