Dropouts In Local High Schools A Scottsdale Issue
Scottsdale School District administrators report dropout rates in the three high schools around 2 to 2.5 percent of the class of 1963, with concerns that even small losses affect students who may not return. Assessments note transient families and economic factors, while counselors stress that many dropouts leave for work, marriage, or specialized training, and record-keeping can misclassify transfers as dropouts.
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Scottsdale
Phoenix Union
Leonard Spooner
Arcadia
State Department of Public Instruction
Spooner
Ray Planetta
Scottsdale High School
Planetta
Pool maintenance plan urged for city pool
City Council pressed Parks and Recreation to deliver a workable maintenance plan for the community pool within a month after Councilman Tom Hunter cited a lack of preventive maintenance. He inspected the facility four times this week and highlighted broken lights and cracking tile needing a $6,000 repair against a $500,000 investment.
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George Adams
Mooney King
Parks and Recreation Department
Tom Hunter
Hunter
Tom Cochran
Vandals Wreck Grader and House Damages
Police investigate two vandalism complaints causing about 800 in damage. A road grader at 86th Street on Northland Road suffered seat slashed controls bent lights and flat tires after Monday to Tuesday. A home break in between last Wednesday and Saturday left 300 in damage and a 17 year old girl among four youths suspected. The Arcadia door was forced open and obscene writings left at 8044 E. Fairmont while the Nances were on vacation.
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E. S. Kelton
Cave Creek Rd
86Th Street
Northland Road
Hudson Nance
E. Fairmont
Arcadia
Nances
Domestic Peace Corps praised by Scottsdale Daily Progress
The June 13 1963 Scottsdale Daily Progress editorial Domestic Peace Corps was inserted in the Congressional Record and praised by Senator Harrison A Williams Jr. for reminding the Senate to address domestic troubles while advocating democracy abroad. More than 50 communities, including several from Arizona, had submitted Domestic Peace Corps projects even before the bill was approved.
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Scottsdale Daily Progress
Congressional Record
Arizona
Harrison A. Williams, Jr
D-N.j
Senate
Khrushchev Proposes Africa as an Atomless Zone
Premier Khrushchev pledges to help make Africa a non-nuclear zone if major powers agree while U S Britain and Soviet negotiators pursue a possible first major cold war test ban pact. He backs a space air and underwater test ban and urges a NATO Warsaw Pact non aggression treaty in line with Addis Ababa’s call.
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Moscow
UPZ
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Khrushchev
Tass
NATO
Soviet Union
Addis Ababa
Africa
Weather: Fair Mornings and Showers Likely in Mountains
Weather outlook shows fair mornings and partly cloudy afternoons and evenings today and tomorrow. Thunder showers likely in mountains on the east side of the valley with little temperature change. High today near 100, low tomorrow morning about 81, high near 110. U.S. Weather Observer Willard L. Greene reported Tuesday’s high of 109 and this morning’s low of 88.
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U.S
Willard L. Greene
Rangers Deny Dynamiting of Mining Cabin
Tonto National Forest officials defend destroying a mining claim cabin 11 miles north of Young. Edgar Hollingsworth alleges dynamiting while he was away, as rangers dismantled, burned materials, and exploded old dynamite in a root cellar. Forest Service says void claim ownership transferred improvements to the government under federal rules.
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YOUNG
UPI
Tonto National Forest
Edgar Hollingsworth
Parker
Forest Rangers
Reginald Reynolds
Bureau of Land Management
Reynolds
Forest Service
Two die and thirty-one hurt in New Jersey train crash
A Port Authority commuter train collided with a stationary Pennsylvania switch engine near Harrison New Jersey at 1 10 a m. Two passengers died and at least 31 were injured as side panels ripped from the first three cars.
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Harrison
N.J
UPD
Port of New York Authority
Port Authority
New York City
Newark
Pennsylvania
Quinton Villanueva
Irvington
Mary Misiak
Jersey City
St. Michael's
Beth Israel
the Pennsylvania
Cuba seizes U S Embassy in Havana in diplomatic blow
The Cuban government expropriated the United States Embassy and grounds in reprisal for U S bank account freezes. Swiss Charge d’Affaires Masset protested the decree and evacuation demand to Foreign Minister Rea, with Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders signing the decree.
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Havana
UPI
United States
Charles Masset
Raul Rea
Rea
Masset
Fidel Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
Treasury
Luis Alvarez
Cuba
Peeping Tom or Meter Reader Seen by Woman
Police said a gas meter reader may have been peering over a back fence with binoculars to read fuel usage. They know of one unidentified reader who copies consumption figures at homes with enclosed yards.
Reluctant Bidder Wins West Main Street Project
The West Main Street Improvement District awarded a $321 079 85 bid from Tanner Brothers Contracting, below the $340 819 32 engineer estimate. Public Works Director Ken McDonald noted bid withdrawal and protest risks while engineers cited deep sewer depths and soil issues as deterrents for smaller firms.
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West Main Street
Tanner Brothers’ Contracting Company
Public Works
Ken McDonald
Teamsters Call for RFK Resignation in Civil Rights Clash
The Teamsters told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy should resign, criticizing Kennedy’s civil rights package as hesitant and loosely drafted while Kennedy urged stronger legal tools. Religious leaders backed the administration plan as lawmakers pressed for fair employment practices legislation and constitutional authority for civil rights proposals.
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Ciary
Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Capitol Hill
John F. Henning
Senate Labor
Harvard Law School
Erwin Griswold
Naton
Senate Commerce Committee
Congress
Nixon Visits Berlin Wall in 1969 Confrontation
Former Vice President Richard Nixon crossed into East Berlin and accused the Communist regime of murder. He demanded freer access for West visitors and rebuked a East Berlin reporter who denied the claim, saying the West does not murder people.
Pill Poppin Child Gives Mom a Scare
A Scottsdale mother Mary Thompkins rushed her two year old daughter Ma risa to Doctors Hospital in Phoenix after she popped two phenobarbital pills into her mouth at noon Tuesday. The child was treated and released from the emergency room. officials said she hadn’t swallowed any of the drug.
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Scottsdale
Mary Thompkins
N. 73Rd Pl
Marisa
Doctor's Hospital
Phoenix
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Kidd
Coronado
Charles Holt
Scottsdale High
Planeta
the Progress
Bill Schrader
Sun Valley Pools
Schrader
Nikita
Ethiopia
Tonto Forest
Peeping Tom
Meter Man
McDonald
G. H. Caywood
Hayden Indian School
Don Collar
82Nd Street
Hayden Road
Collar
Teamsters Ask Rfk
Mony
House Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Berlin Wall
Red
Daily Progress
James Burge
E. Virginia
Burge
Motorola
Verna Wilson
Progress
David Burge
Susan
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