Weather Outlook for Local Area Today and Tomorrow
Partly cloudy today and tonight with a chance of a few sprinkles. High near 76 and low around 48. Cooler tomorrow with a high near 74.
07 Dec 1965
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1965
Page
1
Partly cloudy today and tonight with a chance of a few sprinkles. High near 76 and low around 48. Cooler tomorrow with a high near 74.
A Monday night chain reaction on McDowell Road near 75th Street injured five people from five cars. Among the injured: Mark Deaton, age 7, in satisfactory condition at Scottsdale Baptist Hospital, and Barbara Deaton, 35, treated and released. Police cited Deaton and Barbara Holt for failure to control. Another crash earlier at Thomas and Hayden Roads sent John Rice, 22, and Loren Wartland, 20, to Baptist Hospital. Rice was cited for failure to yield and Mrs Shade for driving without headlights.
Indiana Senator Birch Bayh will discuss The Great Society at the Mountain Shadows dinner meeting of the Scottsdale Dinner Club. Father Eugene McGuire will give the invocation and Gov. Sam Goddard will introduce the senator.
Air Force officials voiced optimism a Sunday launch of Gemini 6, with astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford aiming for a space rendezvous with Gemini 7. Preparations on the Titan 2 and Gemini 6 spacecraft were reported ahead, though final clearance depended on a 12 hour flight rehearsal and last-minute checks.
Moscow reports Luna 8 crashed on the Moon after a fourth attempt to deploy instruments. Tass says station systems worked until final touchdown, while observers in Britain and radio astronomers noted signals ceased about one minute 32 seconds after the planned landing.
Tucson bankrupt Lusk Home Building Corp. restructuring approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Referee Hugh Caldwell. Creditors from Tucson and Savannah Ia request involuntary bankruptcy. hearings to determine debt and stability while examining a $12 million GE mortgage on Lusk real estate in Pima County and any possible insolvency or preference.
Space twins Frank Borman and James Lovell raised Gemini 7 to a 138 to 197 mile Earth orbit on day four of a 14 day flight to set up an historic rendezvous with Gemini 6. At Cape Kennedy technicians work ahead to launch Schirra and Stafford as a Friday to Sunday target. decision may slip to Friday.
Arizona Public Service Co seeks a variance to overhead construction and a building permit for about three 60 foot poles along 8 feet of Scottsdale Road within the town. The planning commission meets at 7 30 p m at town hall 6325 N Invergordon Rd and the council weighs withholding the permit.
The city council meets at 8 pm to consider a preliminary engineering contract for Pima Road improvements from McDowell to Shea and a sewer service extension to Salt River Indian Reservation land at Van Buren and Pima. Also on the agenda are a design review district, a primary election, pool upgrades, and paving and sewer improvement district resolutions.
At a Scottsdale Board of Trustees meeting set for December 14 at Coco pah School a parent group will present a substitute plan to shift Arcadia High students to Scottsdale and move Saguaro attendance lines. Supt. Holt, after meeting about 30 parents at Kiva School, faces strong objections to long travel, frequent school changes, and family separations amid the Saguaro opening and boundary realignment.
At Pearl Harbor a memorial of civilians and veterans will mark the 24th anniversary of the 1941 attack. Honolulu ceremonies honor 1 777 sailors lost aboard the Arizona with services at the memorial platform and wreaths from Hawaii and Hiroshima volunteers.
U.S. 1st Infantry Division clashed with Viet Cong near the Michelin rubber plantation 40 miles NW of Saigon. The battle followed a six hour fight two days earlier with moderate American casualties and about 231 Viet Cong killed. B52s bombed targets near Plei Me and Zone C as Carrier Kitty Hawk fire injures and kills two sailors.
Dickson Hartwell proposed disbanding the six month old Arizona tourist publicity committee. Some members backed the idea, others, including Tom Darlington and Fred Witteberg, called it probably desirable. Hartwell would wait for more committee input before deciding.
Mrs. Margaret Dion of 6616 E Avalon reports a quick sale of her Wurlitzer Spinet piano for 350 dollars the same evening her Scottsdale Progress classified ad appeared last Friday. The notice promotes using classified ads to ease holiday expenses with a direct line to the paper.
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