Scottsdale delayed endorsement for seven story hotel project
A Scottsdale City Council delayed for at least a week endorsement of a 54 million seven story hotel and commercial center at McDowell and Scottsdale roads. The plan includes a Thrift City store an office building a department store and a shopping center. The project will be referred to the planning and zoning commission for study ahead of annexation plans by August 1.
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McDowell
Scottsdale
Bob McNutt
Planning Commission
Marge Colfax
Papago Plaza
William Flanigan
70Th Street
Thrift City
William Schrader
Teenager Organizes Scottsdale Youth Patrol for Respect for Law
Jeff Huber, 15, heads the Scottsdale Youth Patrol with 14 members aged 13 to 17. The group will study laws, assist with bicycle inspections and parade traffic, and meet with police. Sponsors, uniforms, and patches are planned as the program expands under juvenile officer Ken Pepper.
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Scottsdale
Merritt Chafey
Ken Pepper
Jeff Huber
Phillip Perner
E. Windsor
Ronnie Smith
E. Heatherbrea
Dale Offenbacker
E. Heatherbrae
Russ Baubie
Bob Nixon
Devonshire
Huber
Youth Patrol
Scottsdale Council OKs Higher Fire Contract and Defense Institute
The Scottsdale city council approved a three year contract with Rural Fire Department at 1250 per month, a 67 percent rise from 750. The city manager noted population and area growth and said the rate may be reviewed next year after annexations. The contract requires a minimum of three trucks and 10 crew members, and the city may join the Municipal Fire Defense Institute for 45 to 50 per year to influence insurance ratings.
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Scottsdale
American Municipal Association
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Association
McNutt
Scottsdale approves quarter million street and light project
The city council authorized a 255 thousand dollar plan for paving sidewalks drainage and street lighting in a 12 block southwest area of central Scottsdale. A second downtown improvement district covers a 20 block section with gas lighting and drainage work to be funded by the city and Arizona Public Service Company.
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Scottsdale
Scottsdale Road
Taylor and Indian School
Second Street
Miller
Indian School
Robert S. Knight Engineers Inc
Arizona
Public Service Company
Plans Falter On Mongolia Recognition Efforts
Washington diplomatic efforts to recognize the Mongolia People's Republic stumble amid congressional resistance and protests from Nationalist China. A key Democrat warned Kennedy he may not win enough votes for a $4.8 billion foreign aid package if recognition proceeds before aid action. State Department says no decision yet on recognition or UN admission. In Moscow, American officials met twice with the Mongolian ambassador about opening an embassy in Ulan Bator.
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Kennedy
Mongolia
State Department
Mongolia Peoples Republic
United Nations
Moscow
N Ulan Bator
Siberia
China
Scottsdale Seawer Bid Costs Rise Prompt Federal Aid
Scottsdale council hears bids for sewer plant and lines totaling 1.43 million dollars, higher than the 1.226 million estimate. A new federal law may grant 30 percent of costs, up from 25, aiding the project. Tempe permit is needed, or legal action may follow.
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Scottsdale
Tempe
Bob McNutt
Sam Phillips
Phillips
MIDAS Spy Satellite Aims Over Russia
The MIDAS IV satellite, an Air Force missile defense system, launched toward a polar orbit to scan the globe for exhaust flames from missiles. After multiple countdown challenges and foggy conditions, the unfueled 30 foot craft will circle Earth, signaling a new era in space based missile tracking.
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Point Arguello
Calif
UPS
Russia
Earth
Air
Air Force
Downtown Scottsdale Parking Enforcement Lifts Shortage
Police department lacked manpower in June to issue parking tickets in downtown Scottsdale. No tickets were written that month. Chief Merritt Chafey has assigned an officer eight hours daily to parking duty to address the gap.
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Scottsdale
Merritt Chafey
Scottsdale man elected district lieutenant governor in Arizona
John Miller of Scottsdale was elected district lieutenant governor for 20-30 clubs in Arizona at the international club convention. The new district governor is Jimmy Hills of Tucson. Miller, 418 W. Cypress, is the immediate past president of the Scottsdale 20-30 Club.
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Tucson
John Miller
Scottsdale
Arizona
Jimmy Hills
Miller
W. Cypress
Weather Eye Satellite Launch At Cape Canaveral
The United States launches TIROS III a 285 pound weather satellite with two television cameras to observe hurricanes from 400 miles up The mission aims to analyze birth development and movement of tropical storms and transmit infrared images to U S weather bureaus across multiple cities via facsimile network.
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Cape Canaveral
UPS
United States
Today
Tiros
U. S
Weather Bureau
City Officials Awarded Modest Pay Increases
Five top city officials were granted raises by the council, though not to the levels proposed. Increases ranged from $50 to $100 per month, retroactive to July 1, with salary adjustments to reflect approved amounts but no checks issued yet.
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Larry Doyle
Jim Smith
Merritt Chafey
Parks and Recreation
Clarence Allan
Third Avenue Extension OK
City council cleared the Third Avenue extension through Bashas parking lot to Scottsdale Road after the store owner granted right of way in exchange for relocating five light posts. Newberry Electric Company bid $938 to move the poles and the city will repave parking lot trenches at an estimated $50. A traffic signal will be installed at Scottsdale Road once the street is extended.
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Third Avenue
Bashas
Scottsdale Road
Newberry Electric Company
Bob McNutt
Plane Crash at Stapleton Kills 17 Including Mother and 3 Children
Nancy Guyer and her three children died along with 13 others when a DC8 from Philadelphia to Los Angeles crashed during landing at Stapleton Airport. Pilot John Grosso reported hydraulic trouble before the ground loop and a wing strike ignited the flames. Captain Bernard Neff survived with 105 aboard.
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Denver
UPS
Nancy Guyer
Bernard Neff
Air Force
Stapleton Airport
John Grosso
Grosso
Federal Aviation Agency
Charlene Sullivan
Levittown
N.J
Fort Lyon
Colo
Cinday
Ann
Jill
Newton Square
Stapleton
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William Foster
Utah
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Arizona State University At
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New
Scottsdale Police
D. D. Huber
E. Turney
David Withers
E. Oak
Paul Moore
E. Montecito
Jed Nolan
Hopi Way
Council
Washington
Fisher Contracting Company of
Phoenix
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Midas
Third Avenue Extension
Henry C. Blom
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