Local Scout Eagle Awards Ceremony Highlights
The Scottsdale Sertoma Club hosts an Eagle Scout awards event honoring Terry Johnson Charles Gerba and Lee Johnson. Emcee Art Brock and chairman Gene Blahpied present honors to the three candidates whose fathers are Eagle Scouts. Johnson’s early star trek includes Troop 4 and multiple ranks with leadership roles. Gerba’s long scouting career spans California to Arizona with roles from Cub to camp director and a 1929 Life Award.
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Hearing Delayed For Yuma Treasurer Coila Smith
A preliminary hearing for Yuma County Treasurer Coila Smith was postponed indefinitely after Yuma County Attorney Jefferson Richards was hospitalized with an eye ailment. Smith faces four felony counts and two misdemeanors for allegedly procuring purchase certificates on land sold for taxes. Superior Court Judge John A. McGuire granted the delay.
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Florida alligator pranks lead to football players placed on probation
In Florida, three Gators halfbacks Hoover Skelly and kicker Billy Cash faced one year probation after a prank on Albert the alligator mascot. The incident drew statewide attention, with lawmakers even proposing a bill to legalize alligator wrestling for education credit.
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Lynda Bird Johnson Describes School Life and Prom Plans
A National Cathedral School for Girls student describes homework hours and grades as fair to middling. She chats about her sister Lucy, fashion at school, dating on weekends, and the contrast of solitude with public life as Vice President Johnson’s daughter.
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Incomplete OCR: City Officials Contemplate Shelter Space
Fragmentary text references reconstructing a road shelter and troop actions led by a chairperson Johnson and Garba. Details are unclear due to damaged source, but hints at planning shelter space and local governance.
Enrollment Trends Push Women Into Local Workforce
A fragmented note suggests school enrollment signals ongoing influx of women workers, reflecting shifts in local labor participation and community welfare expectations.
Father Attacks Baby Sitter In Tucson Kidnapping Case
Police seek Manuel Altamirano and his 4 year old son Bennie after he allegedly attacked a 17 year old babysitter in Tucson. The suspect fled with Bennie while the boy suffers chickenpox. Altamirano previously lived in California and was described wearing a yellow shirt and black pants.
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Australia Uses Nets To Foil Sharks In Sydney
NSW officials say the shark mesh method near Sydney beaches has proven nearly 100 percent effective since 1937. Huge hemp nets 500 feet long are laid parallel to shore, anchored, and reused daily. contractors are small trawlers, with war years pausing the program. The scheme expanded to Newcastle and Wollongong, with supporters noting dramatic drops in shark sightings and attacks after meshing began.
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