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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1969
Page
2
The Labor Department reports the consumer price index up 0.5 percent from October to November, reaching 130.5 in the 1957-59 base. November year over year increase is 5.8 percent, the sharpest since 1951, with food prices leading gains including lettuce and tomatoes up over 30 percent.
Eight children ages 6 to 12 in the Oak Street area organized a charity event to help UNICEF. They held a carnival and collected coins and bottles, raising over 26 dollars with no adult involvement.
U S sources say Hanoi rethinks strategy as 153000 Communist troops are reported killed this year. Viet Cong shells Tan Son Nhut airport for first time in six months while cease fire talks surface with unnamed units in three South Vietnamese divisions.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office reports Bruno Brund was arrested Thursday at 573 East Indian School by Sheriff Deputy Robert Acosta on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He is charged with suspicion of grand theft in Santa Barbara County, California.
Officer James Kershner reported leaving his helmet on a machine at a restaurant during a 10:23 p.m. coffee break. He found it missing at 10:39 p.m. Police estimate the helmet’s value at $35 and are seeking the thief.
In Izmir Turkish leftists mobbed U S Navy officers as five visiting 6th Fleet ships arrived. Police detained about 100 demonstrators after clashes near NATO headquarters while Columbus and four other ships berthed. Downey and Madd Maulden led the visiting squadron amid tense harbor scenes.
Attorney General John N. Mitchell announced a special team of attorneys and a federal grand jury will investigate the violence between police and Black Panther party members in Chicago, led by Jerris Leonard. The probe aims to establish true facts and end rumors amid disputed accounts of Hampton and Clark deaths.
Israeli commandos pushed across the Suez Canal for the first time in three months and penetrated about 30 miles into Egypt shelling Salahiyah army camp near the canal. A Tel Aviv spokesman said rockets hit the Egyptian center and the raiders escaped without reported losses. Jordan also reported attempted cross-border incursions by Israeli troops, but no casualties were listed.
James Calvin Hagan 72 died Wednesday at Heritage of Camelback Nursing Home Scottsdale services Saturday at Green Acres Mortuary 3 30 p m interment Green Acres Memorial Gardens Born in Qil City Pa he moved to Scottsdale in 1960 from Warren Pa He lived at 7538 E Kimsey Lane survived by wife Margaret one son Charles both of Scottsdale another son James of San Jose Calif two daughters Phyllis Hagan of ey and Margaret Dinsmoor of Chicago Ill two brothers and one sister five grandchildren and one great grandchild
Evelyn Talbott of Scottsdale dies with services set for 10 am Monday at Green Acres Chapel. Interment will follow at Green Acres Memorial Gardens. Visitation Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm. Survived by husband Glenn, a son Charles, and a brother and two sisters living out of state.
Scottsdale police investigate a complaint about a spurious copper coin shaped like a hunter used to obtain a pack of cigarettes from a vending machine at a service station on 7555 E Camelback Rd. The owner, David Schumacher, reports the fake coin returned pop and change instead of cigarettes.
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