Police Chief Nemetz Serves as Acting City Manager
Police Chief Walter Nemetz acted as city manager and will continue in that role until Monday after City Manager Bill Donaldson left Scottsdale for the Arizona City Managers Association convention in Hermosillo, Mexico. Donaldson was accompanied by Assistant City Manager Ken McDonald, Don Skousen personnel director, Clarence Bigelow finance director, and Odell Minor assistant public works director.
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Walter Nemetz
Nemetz
Bill Donaldson
Scottsdale
Arizona, City Managers’ Association
Hermosillo
Mex
Donaldson
Ken McDonald
Don Skousen
Clarence Bigelow
Odell Minor
Eartha Kitt Spars With Lyndon Johnson At White House Luncheon
UPI by Helen Thomas reports a tense White House luncheon where Eartha Kitt scolded first lady Mrs. Johnson about sending youths to Vietnam. Mrs. Kennedy pressed for reform while Mrs. Johnson urged peaceful action and better education, health, and crime tackling. The encounter ended with Johnson invoking social care programs and leaving the room.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Eartha Kitt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
Baez Ends Prison Term Calls Jail "Peanuts"
Folk singer Joan Baez and her mother were released early from Santa Rita work farm near Oakland two weeks before completing a 45 day sentence for anti draft protest. Baez said jail is "really peanuts" and "screwy," planning to return to jail if politically relevant.
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Joan Baez
San Francisco
UPI
Santa Rita
Oakland
Joan
Miss Baez
Municipal
Delmar Brobst
Carmel
Calif
Institute For the Study of Nonviolence
Treasury urges strike moratorium to aid balance of payments
The Treasury urged labor and management in key industries to consider a one to two year strike truce to prevent disruptions that could worsen the balance of payments. It cites steel, copper, mining and transportation as high risk and links the move to wage restraint and productivity goals set in President Johnson's State of the Union.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson Administration
Treasury
United States
Johnson
Cutback in fighting predicted by general
General K Johnson told the American Ordnance Association in Phoenix that the battlefield initiative has shifted to the Allies in Vietnam. He forecast the war’s tempo would subside in about a year and a half, with some U.S. troops remaining after hostilities end. He noted Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces are being punished as they operate in friendly territory and vowed improvements to the M16 rifle to reduce malfunctions.
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Phoenix
K. Johnson
Army
Vietnam
American Ordnance Association
Johnson
Y Courses Open for Winter at Scottsdale YMCA and Partners
The Scottsdale YMCA has openings in eight week winter courses at the Y building and at First Baptist Church and Coronado High School. Prices run 15 dollars for members and 18 for non members. Courses include languages baton twirling art self defense fitness and tennis for youths and adults. Registration continues as classes began Monday.
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Scottsdale
First Baptists
Church
Coronado High School
Two Alternates Named for Air Force Academy Appointments
Scottsdale residents Ted Bryan Leenerts and Robert W. Dyess Jr. were named as alternates for appointments to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs by Senator Paul Fannin. Leenerts, son of Mr and Mrs C T Mitchell Jr, attends the Milk School in Bandit Ore. Dyess, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Dyes, is finishing his senior year at Arcadia High School.
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Scottsdale
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
Paul Fannin
Ted Bryan
Leenerts
C. TH. Mitchell Jr
Casa “Blanch Rd
Milk School
Bandit
Ore
Dyess
Arcadia High School
Cyclist Injured After Car Hits Motorcycle
Frank Kruper, 39, of 8209 Etherbrae, sustained minor injuries when his motorcycle was struck by a southbound car driven by Michael Lettiere, 26, at Devonshire and 82nd Street. Kruper, treated at Scottsdale Baptist Hospital, was cited for failure to yield.
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Devonshire Heb
An Be St
Frank Kruper
E. Heatherbrae
Scottsdale Baptist Hospital
Kruper
Fire crews inspect dryer fire at Roy Stegall residence
The Rural Fire Department responded to a clothes dryer fire at Roy Stegall's home, 6937 E Culver. Firefighters inspected the dryer to ensure the fire was extinguished.
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Roy Stegall
E. Culver
Governor Shafer probes LSD hoax disclosed by state official
Gov. Shafer’s administration confronts legal peril after a phony LSD blindings hoax. Dr. Norman Yoder, state commissioner for the blind, admitted the fabrication and received treatment at the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center. Yoder had claimed six Western Pennsylvania college students were blinded after an LSD sun-gazing episode.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Raymond P. Shafer
Norman Yoder
Philadelphia
Yoder
Shafer
Louis Alikakos
Pennsylvania
Raymond Shafer
McDowell Nation installs 1968 officers at banquet
The McDowell Nation of the Indian Guides installed newly elected officers for 1968 at a banquet. New officers include sack-ordon of the Cheyenne chief Tom Kirchmaier of the Mohave medicine man Carl Dietrich of the Pawnee tally keeper Jin Swan of the Hopi and Wam pum bearer. New nation council members named are Lee Athmer of the Mohawks Dick Dorris of the Seris Vern bau of the Pitas Tom Tompkins of the Apaches and Parker Voll of the Smoki.
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McDowell Nation of the Indian Guides
Tally Keeper
Jin Swan
Nation Council
Lee Athmer
Dick Dorris
the-Seris
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Scottsdale Daily Progress
Simmons
Searchgard
Pantask National Bank
Scottsdale RD
Thomas
Arizona
Maricopa County
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Paris
Greyhound Park
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