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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1970
Page
1
Scottsdale police said there is no connection between explosives found buried in the desert earlier this week and a separate discovery at a Phoenix gun shop. About 600 pounds of explosives were turned over to the state mine inspector for destruction. the source remains unknown.
President Nixon will send to Congress a grand design for environmental cleanup including a $10 billion federal state city program to provide waste disposal systems within five years. He seeks strict pollution controls and frames the move as a major decade priority presented at a Chicago environmental quality council meeting.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Sen. J William Fulbright spar over the Tonkin Gulf resolution, with Johnson accusing Fulbright of misunderstanding and Fulbright calling Johnson and aides deceitful. The confrontation follows Cronkite interview remarks on the Vietnam war and related policy debates.
The Scottsdale Rural Fire Department put out three small fires Friday with unknown causes. A brush fire near Kiva School at 6911 E McDonald took a small amount of water to control at 2 48 p m. A press fire at 65th Place and Lafayette Boulevard was extinguished at 3 34 p m and a trash fire at 6702 E Shea Boulevard at 7 56 p m caused no damage.
Funeral services are planned for June M. Winchell 64 wife of Walter Winchell at Messinger Mortuary with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Also noted are services for Mildred Spong 59 wife of Clarence Spong, a pharmacist and teacher, at Scottsdale Presbyterian Church with interment in Green Acres Memorial Gardens.
Scottsdale police arrested Edward Robert Sovereign 27 known as High School Eddie and Michael M. Holland 23 of Phoenix at 9 15 p m Friday after spotting two suspects in a car on a canal bank north of McDowell Rd El Dorado Park with the dome light on Holland faced vagrancy charges Sovereign found with a small amount of a drug believed to be seconal in his possession
Scottsdale police report they have not determined the skeleton’s identity found Sunday at the bottom of the Arizona canal near Chaparral and 76th Street. Authorities cannot confirm age or cause of death or how long it was in the canal. Three children found the skeleton as the canal was briefly dry, and police await ASU Anthropology input after medical exam.
Dr John I Goodlad of UCLA will speak at 8 p.m. Monday at Arizona State University on the ninth Grady Gammage Memorial Lecture. He says reform recommendations have circulated for a decade but schools have not adopted them and will explain why.
A Romanian airliner crashed in the Apuseni Mountains killing 21 people. One passenger survived the Bucharest to Oradea flight, according to Agerpres from Bucharest.
Arab nations meeting in Cairo vow to stay and fight Israel as air strikes by Egypt resume along the Suez Canal. The gathering follows heavy fighting and new proposals from the United States Britain and France to restore a cease fire agreed after the 1967 war.
A Phoenix service station operator filed a $600000 federal suit against Texaco Inc alleging price discrimination and illegal practices to force him out of business. Ledbetter, who runs two stations, claims Texaco cut his wholesale discount on November 14, costing him $971 monthly and nearly ruining his enterprise for refusing to keep prices as Texaco demanded.
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