Arizona teen heads to Brazil for a year in exchange program
Bill Johnson of 10824 N 42nd Pl leaves Sky Harbor for a year in Sao Leopardo Brazil under the American Field Service. He attends Saguaro High School and will start classes March 1 after summer break. The district lists several other exchange students and overall program figures of 3000 foreign students and 1300 Americans annually.
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Bill Johnson
Harley Johnson
Sao Leopardo
Brazil
Bill
Saguaro High School
Scotsdale High
Patty Wilson
Sky
NBA awards franchises to Phoenix and Milwaukee
The National Basketball Association awarded expansion franchises to Phoenix and Milwaukee, increasing the league to 14 teams. Each new club pays 2 million dollars to join and will draft foundation rosters from existing teams with seven protected players per club. Draft order will be decided by coin toss, with Milwaukee picking seventh and Phoenix eighth.
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New York
UPI
National Basketball Association
Phoenix
Milwaukee
NBA Board of Governors
San Diego
Seattle
Anonymous note confuses mayor over clipping on appointments
Mayor Bud Tims expressed confusion after receiving an anonymous Los Angeles Times clipping discussing dangers in appointing planning and land zoning commissioners with potential conflicts of interest. He urged the sender to reveal their concerns directly. The broader report describes a failed infiltration in South Korea with clashes between police and Communist operatives.
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Bud Tims
Los Angeles Times
Tims
South
Kim
Demilitarized Zone
Bibong Mountain
Seoul
Yoon Pil-yong
Army Counter-Intelligence Corps
Scottsdale Eyes Sister City in Alamos Sonora Mexico
Progress City Editor Scottsdale plans a sister city link with Alamos in Sonora Mexico. City Manager Bill Donaldson said Consul General Barney B. Taylor will begin talks, following Scottsdale officials’ attendance at the Arizona City Manager’s Association meeting in Hermosillo. Donaldson praised Hermosillo’s development and flood control efforts while noting Alamos is an old mining town becoming a tourist area. He added that Americans could learn from Mexican advances in schools and parks as he was named secretary treasurer of the association.
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Scottsdale
Mexico
Bill Donaldson
Alas
Sonora
Donaldson
Barney B. Taylor
U.S
Hermosillo
Alamos
Arizona
Hemmesillo
Indian Bend Wash
Scotsdale
Tom Smithson
Holbrook
Charles Esser
Phoenix
United States admits border incursion with Cambodia
United States and South Vietnamese troops crossed into Cambodia last week during a battle with Communists. The State Department says the action had no hostile intent and was a self defense measure. Cambodia reports three of its men were killed.
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Washington
United States
South Vietnam
State Department
Cambodia
Boundaries Change Clears House Panel for First and Third Districts
A bill to redraw the first and third congressional districts cleared the House judiciary committee amid Democratic objections labeling it a Sam Steiger relief bill. It would shift Sun City and Youngtown from the first district to Steiger’s third. A Phoenix man survived a B 52 crash near Thule Greenland as one of five parachuting crew members.
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Phoenix
House
Judiciary Committee
Sam Steiger
Sun City
Youngtown
Steiger
Scottsdale junior college proposed in Arizona Senate
A $500000 federal appropriation for Scottsdale's new junior college was advanced in the Arizona Senate to fund the state's share of an $8 million project by the Maricopa County Junior College district. Sponsors John Conlan and David Kret said the campus could open next year on Salt River Indian Reservation land, but Dr. John Prince doubted that pace, predicting a 1971 opening unless space is rented and noting uncertain federal aid.
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Scottsdale
Arizona Senate
Maricopa County
John Conlan
David Kret
Salt River
Pima
Chaparral Rds
Paradise Valley
East
Camelback
Prince
B52 bomber crashes near Thule Greenland with nuclear weapons
A UPI report says a B52 from the 380th Bomb Wing at Plattsburg AFB crashed seven miles southwest of Thule Greenland while attempting an emergency landing. At least one crewman was killed and another eight were missing. five parachuted to safety. Nuclear weapons were aboard but unarmed, with no known damage to civilian property.
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Washington
Thule
Greenland
Defense Department
John M. Haug
UPI
Pentagon
Strategic ‘Air Command
Plattsburg, Afb
N.Y
North Star Bay
Weather Outlook: Mild with Clouds Through Tomorrow
Sunny with occasional high cloudiness today and tomorrow. High near 68 today, low around 37 tonight. High tomorrow near 68 with similar conditions and cool night ahead.
Phoenix Man Arrested After Shootout in Kidnapping Spree
Richard Davis, 30, was arrested after a dawn shootout with deputy John De Santi near Wenden Arizona. De Santi and Davis were wounded in a CHP style chase that started when De Santi was kidnapped while questioning Davis about hitchhiking. Davis allegedly kidnapped Globe officers Arthur Kramer and John Jaeger, later found bound in Kramer's patrol car trunk at a Phoenix motel.
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DeSanti
Davis
Cobre Valley Motors
Kramer
Apache Junction
Jaeger
Samoan Village
Severaky
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