Scottsdale Annexes 34 Square Miles Amid Airport Dispute
Scottsdale voters approve a 34 square mile annexation doubling the city’s size to 71.9 square miles. Mayor Bill Schrader warns against a Phoenix satellite airport near Paradise Valley and urges intercity cooperation to site the facility, possibly on Salt River Indian Reservation. Major property owners include DC Ranch’s 10,000 acres. The annexation overlaps with Phoenix claims. trial on the dispute is set for March 18.
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Scottsdale
Phoenix
Scottsdale Road
Bell Road
Schrader
Salt River
Eugene la Croix
Howard Heaton
Don Chandler
Kemper Marley
E. E. Brown
Brown
DC Ranch
Paradise Valley
Meet The Bambino and Wax Babe Ruth at Scottsdale
Boston Red Sox slugger Dick Stuart and Ted Williams view a wax figure of Babe Ruth at Scottsdale Stadium. The exhibit spotlights the Sultan of Swat as two baseball legends tour the display and pose for photos.
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Swat
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Scottsdale Stadium
City to Renew Lease for Community Center and Bond Debt
City council expected to renew a rental agreement for the Community Center at 30 000 per year for redemption of a 1959 250 000 bond issue. The six percent mortgage bonds financed the pool and remaining debt on 20 of 27 acres. Lease expires 1969 with title transfer on payment of 1.
Council To Hear Bids On Temporary Offices
City Manager Kenneth Williams will present a recommendation on interim city hall quarters at an 8 p.m. council meeting. Proposals include Scottsdale Square Building and Butler Homes Building options, with study of a long term site and possible federal funding under a 701 Program for planning costs.
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Kenneth Williams
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E. Indian School Road
Gains Guaranty
Scottsdale Road
Main Street
Butler Homes
West Indian School Road
Williams
Local Girl Wins State Voice of Democracy Contest
Scottsdale high school junior Susan Scott won the Arizona state Voice of Democracy title, announced at the Veterans of Foreign Wars department headquarters in Phoenix. She will travel to Valley Forge and Washington, D C, at month end to vie with 51 state winners for national scholarships awarded to the top four.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Department of Arizona
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Jack Scott
N. 83Rd St
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Phoenix
Scott
Valley Forge
Washington, D.C
President Kennedy Tours Washington Landmarks as Tourist
President Kennedy and Charles Bartlett toured the capital on a sunny Sunday visiting the Smithsonian space exhibit at the Mall and the Lincoln Memorial. They rode to Arlington Cemetery to see Robert E. Lee's mansion and returned to the White House after about two and a half hours.
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Democrats Refute GOP Budget Cut Claims
Democratic congressional leaders in Washington dismissed Republican claims that 10 to 15 billion dollars could be cut from Kennedy's 1964 appropriations. House Speaker John McCormack called the talk illogical and urged specific recommendations, warning large cuts would threaten essential government services and defense.
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Dow Jones Gains Mixed Averages at 1 PM
At 1 p.m. EST the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 669.26, up 2.22 points on 30 stocks. the Rail Average reached 153.96, up 0.05. Utilities at 133.40, up 0.27. the Stocks index at 238.76, up 0.56 as sales totaled 1,890,000 shares.
Hearing Set on Scottsdale Hospital District Formation
County supervisors set April 3 for a public hearing on forming a hospital district to cover Tempe school district 3 Scottsdale no 48 and Balz 31. The 3 million dollar project would fund a 150 bed hospital with lease from Baptist Hospital Assn. and no tax unless rent fails. Helen Marston and Lt Comdr Carroll Marston donated a 10 acre site at Scottsdale Hayden roads for the project.
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Tempe
Balz
East Phoenix
Valley Community Hospital
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The
Baptist Hospital Assn
Arizona
Baptist Association
Helen Marston
Carroll Jack Marston
USN
Scottsdale and
Hayden Rds
Feltman
March Floods Strain Four States Prompt State of Emergency
Floodwaters from heavy rains and thaw isolate towns in Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Newark Ohio declares emergency as National Guardsmen mobilize. Clarksburg and Greene County face isolation while hundreds of families flee homes. Three deaths confirmed in Ohio with reports linking a possible Wheeling incident.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
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Newark
Clarksburg
Greene County
Wood County
Chillicothe
Wheeling
W. Va
Weather Outlook with Fair Skies and Warming Trend
Yesterday’s high was 66 and this morning’s low 36. Sunrise 6 52 a m, sunset 6 28 p m. Forecast calls for fair today and tonight, mostly fair with high clouds tomorrow. Warmer with high near 70 today and about 40 tomorrow morning.
Tax Bill Entered In House
Arizona lawmakers introduced tax equalization legislation as a basis to address the statewide reassessment process. The measure would freeze assessments for 1963 and assign arbitrary class percentages for 1964, with homes at 15 percent and utilities at 35 percent of full cash value. Some senators argued for a freeze until reevaluation is complete while others called the percentages meaningless without better data.
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UPI
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Rpima
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D-Yavapai
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Harold Giss
Dyuma
Khrushchevson-In-Law Denied Papal Audience Claims
Vatican sources denied Italian reports that Russian editor Alexei I Adzhubei sought a private audience with Pope John XXIII. The Cuban Embassy to the Holy See also said the report is not true despite past claims of Adzhubei seeking Vatican contacts.
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