SRP offers amnesty as wildcat strike counts rise
SRP spokesman says nonparticipants in the wildcat strike will not face court damages or discipline. Eleven cited for contempt await a 9:30 a.m. Friday hearing before Superior Court Judge Jerry Glenn. SRP had threatened to discharge about 700 nonworking employees yesterday. The union and SRP discussed a compromise, including limited suspensions and reduced damages, but the strikers’ leadership did not convene a meeting. SRP reported 785 employees were out today, up 32 from yesterday.
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Wildcat
Superior Court
Jerry Glenn
SRP
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 266
International
Hall
Pulse
Animated films festival for Scottsdale children
Children in Scottsdale are invited to a Saturday film festival at the city hall kiva at 2 p.m. The program includes Song of the Prairie a satire of Westerns Dinosaur Age and Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott. Vista del Camino area kids may attend a second showing at 10 a.m. at the Branch Library Community Services Center.
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Scottsdale
City Hall
Poetry Contest Sponsored by Valley of the Sun NSAL
Arizona college students may enter a poetry contest sponsored by the Valley of the Sun chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters Entries are due March 15 with three poems allowed per entrant The contest offers multiple awards including 100 and 200 dollars for manuscript categories and five 10 dollar prizes Winners will be announced April 14 Entries should include name address age and college and be mailed to Mrs Doil F Kline Phoenix Arizona 85018 for inquiries
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Arizona
Valley of the Sun Chapter
National Society of Arts and Letters
Doil F. Kline
P.O. Box
Phoenix
Gas tax revenues dip as February sales fall in Arizona
Arizona state officials report February gasoline tax receipts fell 7.5 percent from a year ago with total gross collections at 6.4 million for January shipments. Senate panel approves a county charter bill in trouble over amendments. Over 30,000 Maricopa property owners missing or wrong addresses for valuation notices. Gov Williams reports 1400 workers in 564 car pools. Nude dancing liquor law suit dismissed by Maricopa County judge.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Maricopa County
Ken Kunes
Kunes
Paul Laprade
Ajo News Stand Owner Roy Cass Fatally Beaten
Roy Alexander Cass, 66, owner of the Ajo News Stand, was found beaten in his home and died en route to St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix on Wednesday. He was a local businessman.
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Ajo
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Phoenix
Roy Alexander Cass
Man Held in Embezzlement Case in Phoenix
Gary Lee Lacey, 33, of Phoenix, was held on a $15,000 bond after a Maricopa County Grand Jury indicted him on eight counts of grand theft embezzlement. The charges allege he stole $10,178 from Circle K Corp., where he worked.
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Phoenix
Gary Lee Lacey
Maricopa County
Lacey
Circle K Corp
Paradise Valley School Board Holds Vacancy Watch
Paradise Valley officials await Maricopa County Superintendent Richard Harris’s plan to fill the six week vacancy left by James Westhoff. Harris may pick among six board nominees or call a special election. district says Harris has offered no clear plan. The nominees include Joseph Macleod John Beal Neil MacVicar Robert Ream Voie Coy and Joseph Ross.
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Paradise Valley
Maricopa County
Richard Harris
Thomas Cunningham
Harris
James Westhoff
Cunningham
Westhoff
Joseph Macleod
AiResearch Corp
John Beal
Prudential Insurance
Neil MacVicar
Shamrock Dairy
Robert Ream
General Electric
Voie Coy
Community Organization For Drug Abuse Control
CODAC
Joseph Ross
Sun City
Windy Scottsdale Forecast With Dust and Rain Chances
The forecast for Scottsdale and the Valley calls for 25 to 30 mph winds today with dust, a 40 percent chance of rain tonight and Friday. Skies will be sunny today, become cloudy tonight, then clear Friday with winds easing and temperatures in the upper 60s. A high of 80 was recorded Wednesday with a current low around 53 this morning.
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Scottsdale
Valley
Thieves seize $750 in Scottsdale burglary haul
Thieves steal two television sets and golf clubs from Henry Norris at 6557 E Osborn Rd in Scottsdale on Wednesday morning. Police say a bedroom window entry yielded the $750 value. In a second case at 7777 E Heatherbrae Dr, a tape deck stereo two cameras and two firearms were taken from an apartment. Steve Montgomery 23 and Tom Perez 23 reported the items as theirs. Entry was gained by prying open the Arcadia door.
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Scottsdale
Henry Norris
Osborn Rd
Heatherbrae
Steve Montgomery
Tom Perez
Arcadia
Laetrile ban upheld by California court
A Superior Court judge ruled Stanford Medical Center acted within its rights to bar a physician from using Laetrile on a hospitalized patient. Judge John S. McInerny denied Mrs. Josephine Berigman the suit and noted it would be unwise to challenge the university hospital's medical decisions. Dr Stewart Jones said he used the drug as nutritional therapy, not a cancer treatment, and the patient’s cancer was terminal.
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San Jose, Calif
UPI
Stanford University
Medical Center
John S. McInerny
Josephine Beriigman
University Hospital
Stewart Jones
Speed trap leads to five charges against Phoenix man
A Phoenix man, James Elton Bledsoe Jr., 22, was arrested by Scottsdale police after a 12:30 a.m. traffic stop on 63rd Street near Indian School Road for speeding 65 mph in a 45 mph zone. He faces charges of speeding while intoxicated, driving while intoxicated, carrying a concealed weapon a five inch switchblade found on him, marijuana possession from ashtray, and an altered Virginia driver’s license.
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Phoenix
James Elton Bledsoe Jr
Scottsdale
63Rd Street
Indian School Road
Bledsoe
54Th Street
Indian School
Virginia
Local residents to appear on NBC programs tonight
Craig Pease of Los Angeles will join The Johnny Carson Show on Channel 12 at 10 30 presenting clips from Hot Summer Wine about boating and water skiing. His mother Mrs Dorothy Pease of Scottsdale and publisher of Ladies Pro Golfer will discuss women’s golf on Dinah’s Place Channel 12 at 10 am Friday.
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National Broadcasting Corporation
Craig Pease
Dorothy Pease
Scottsdale
Ladies Pro Golfer
Channel 12
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