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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1974
Page
2
A Navajo scientist Babe Billy argues a shift toward statehood or a commonwealth for the 15 million acre Navajo Reservation in Arizona New Mexico and Utah. Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald leads the movement as support grows within the tribe.
A 20 year old man told a psychologist he wanted to die and then seized a State Capitol security guard’s revolver, shooting himself in the head. Security Officer Robert Lent reported the incident to police on Friday.
An estimated 7000 damage fire struck a residence at 8514 E Vista Scottsdale, with flames through the roof. Chester Want owned the building and no injuries were reported. Investigators said cause unknown and garage attic spread.
Police said an assortment of shotgun shells tools and a five gallon gasoline can were stolen from a camper and garage at 8750 E Crestwood. The owner Frank Barron Hobbs a Marriott caterer in New Orleans estimated the loss at 433. Hobbs was staying at the Camelback Inn when the theft occurred.
A 20 year old woman from Phoenix suffered minor injuries Friday when her westbound car collided with a southbound car at the intersection of Indian School Road and Marshall Way. Nancy Ann Fricke was treated and released from Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. The other driver, 17 year old Dorian Andrew Boese of Glendale, was cited for failing to yield from a stop sign.
In Cordoba, rebels backed by right wing groups clash with police during a pre-dawn stand. Reports cite three dead and dozens wounded, with conflicting tallies from leftist sources. Governor Obregon Cano freed and vanished as interim authority swears in a successor amid growing tensions. News from Buenos Aires notes mass demonstrations quelled by teargas.
The Arizona State Senate sent to the House a tougher antismoking bill and a measure strengthening the state law against closed meetings. The open meetings bill passed 30 to 0, while the smoking bill won 20 to 10 amid opposition calling it government overreach. A separate speed limit bill setting 55 mph on highways passed 19 to 11 but lacked the two thirds for immediate effect. The federal deadline looms March 3.
Beatrice Macdonald 74 died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital. Rosary 8 30 p m Sunday at Messinger Mortuary Scottsdale burial St Francis Cemetery Monday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. Survived by son Robert F Jr and sister in North Dakota plus two grandchildren. Born in Duluth Minnesota she moved to Scottsdale 14 years ago.
Barbara Lynn Kesteloot 14 of Scottsdale was killed Thursday in a pickup truck pedestrian crash. A freshman at Scottsdale High, she was born in Minneapolis and brought to Arizona in 1968. Survivors include her parents, a brother Donald and five sisters, all of Scottsdale. Burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery after visitation.
Salvador Puig, 26, a Catalan anarchist and MIL member, was garrotted in Barcelona in what authorities call the first political execution in Spain in over a decade. He killed a police officer last September with an iron strangling collar.
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