Arcadia High repairs delayed to 1974 75 year
Arcadia School Board heard that major repairs and alterations for Arcadia High must wait a full budget year to allow proper planning. Manager Jack Kearney estimated over 200000 in work for 1974 75 with smaller items like shower rooms funded next year.
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Arcadia
Jack Kearney
Scottsdale
Kearney
Jim Lanker
Arcadia Booster Club
Gabriel Reuben
Break-ins Hit Three Businesses in Local Shopping Center
Police probed three related burglaries at a Thomas and Hayden Roads shopping center. Entry was via roof vents at One Hour Martinizing, Lucky's grocery, and Thrifty Wash. $60 from One Hour Martinizing and $52 from Lucky's were stolen, with Thrifty Wash undisturbed.
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Thomas and
Hayden Roads
Lucky's
Last of a series SRP blocked Verde funds
Dreams of irrigating Paradise Valley with Verde River water faded as SRP opponents in Congress blocked funding. Bartlett Dam and Horseshoe Dam were built with federal help but water went to Tempe and southern lands while Paradise Valley remained dry. The canal remains visible across North Scottsdale toward Paradise Valley. Bone dry, yet it endures as a reminder of the venture.
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Jack Earie
Verde River
Paradise Valley
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S. Congress
Salt River
SRP
Carl Hayden
Henry Ashurst
U.S
Isabella Greenway
Congress
U.S. Bureau of Interior
Bartlett Dam
Verde Rivers
Verde
Bureau of Reclamation
Horseshoe Dam
Arizona Canal
Tempe
Scottsdale
Bell Road
Plans for McCormick Ranch village and performing arts center
The Development Review Board was to review plans for 486 new dwelling units and a branch bank on McCormick Ranch along with the 32 million Center for the Performing Arts. Also on the agenda were 197 single family homes on a 30 acre parcel east of Hayden, 116 townhouse units in Sandpiper Scottsdale 3 and 4, a 173 unit Paseo Village townhouse complex, a 6,900 square foot Valley National Bank branch, and the Center for the Performing Arts designed by Bennie Gonzales for a 212 acre site west of the library. The meeting includes 128 unit Pacific Coast condominium plans and several other commercial and industrial site plans.
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McCormick Ranch
Center For the Performing Arts
Hayden
McCormick Parkway
Dwayne Lewis
Sandpiper Scottsdale
Ponderosa Las Plazas
Paseo Village
Ranch
Valley National Bank
Bennie Gonzales
Scottsdale Civic Center
Pacific Coast Properties
61St Street
Thomas Road
Bicyclist Strikes Girl In Scottsdale Parking Lot
A 11 year old Scottsdale girl was injured when her bicycle hit a car in a parking lot at 1133 N. Scottsdale Rd. Jenniffer Stafford of 6626 E Belleview St was treated and released at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital after the 4 15 p m collision. The car was driven by Henry Worischeck 73 of 7241 F Belleview St no citations were issued.
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Scottsdale
Jenniffer Stafford
E. Belleview St
Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
N. Scottsdale Rd
Henry Worischeck
F. Belleview St
Obituary Roy W Downend engineer dies in Arizona
Roy W. Downend 58 an AiResearch engineer for five years in Phoenix died Wednesday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. A Detroit native who moved to Tucson in 1941 he worked for Consolidated Aircraft Co. and a California firm before joining AiResearch. He was a UA Delta Chi member and Phoenix Elks. Survived by wife Elaine three daughters Marianne Hopkins Tucson Christian Selbe Globe and Lynn Downend Scottsdale with three sons. Services Friday at Messinger Mortuary. Cremation to follow.
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Phoenix
Messinger Mortuary
Downend
Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
Detroit
Tucson
Consolidated
Death of Robert W. Sharkey longtime state fund rep
Robert William Sharkey 53 of 4614 E Clinton died Wednesday at Tucson VA Hospital. A field representative in the State Compensation Fund marketing dept for 42 years he earlier ran Sharkey Insurance Agency. Survived by wife Lois son Robert W. Phoenix daughter Maureen Lorraine Sharkey Del Mar Calif. Services 2 p.m. Saturday Messinger Mortuary burial pending. Contributions to Kidney Foundation requested.
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E. Clinton
Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital
Sharkey
State Compensation Fund
Phoenix
Sharkey Insurance Agency
Travelers Protective Association
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Lois
Robert W
Maureen Lorraine Sharkey
del Mar
Calif
Ray M. Sharkey
Oswego
Messinger Mortuary
E. Indian School
GOP Women to Hear Senator Paradise
Republican Women invite the public to a Friday meeting in the Community Room of First Federal Savings Building 7201 E McDowell Coffee at 9 30 a m followed by a business meeting and program State Sen Sandra O Connor Senate majority leader and PRW member will comment on the recently ended legislative session
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First Federal Savings Building
E. McDowell
Sandra O'Connor
Senate
PRW
Foster wins round in DWI charge fight
Phoenix city Magistrate Thomas Foster wins a procedural round as Superior Court Judge Williby E. Case Jr. declines to take jurisdiction over a special action by the county attorney seeking to overturn a lower court dismissal of Foster’s drunken driving charge filed last October.
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Foster
DWI Charge
Phoenix
UPI
Thomas Foster
Superior Court
Williby E. Case Jr
Paul Fannin
Salt River Project, union strike pact reaches two year contract
Salt River Project and Local 266 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced a two year contract retroactive to April 1 for 1750 hourly workers. Wages rise 6 percent annually with a cost of living adjustment, 16 skill classifications updated, and better vacations. ratified 3 to 1. In Glendale, United Fund director George McDavit is ousted by the board amid calls from about 100 residents for his replacement.
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Phoenix
Salt River Project
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
United Fund
Glendale
Glendale Area United Fund
George McDavit
McDavit
Empty Cars Derail West of Gila Bend
Twenty four empty freight cars derailed from a 123 car Southern Pacific train 31 miles west of Gila Bend. The accident happened around 1 05 p m in a desert area with no injuries reported. A prior SP train carrying military bombs exploded near Benson less than two weeks earlier.
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Gila Bend
Southern Pacific
al Bradshaw
Benson
Yuma to Vote on Water Bonds
Voters will decide next Tuesday if Yuma may issue 10 million dollars in bonds to modernize the water system. A major cost item is relocating the main treatment plant as the I 8 route crosses the Colorado River. Narcotics suspects arrested in Tucson and Phoenix.
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Yuma
Colorado River
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