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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1968
Page
7
The Scottsdale Charros reported that nearly all reserved seats were sold before the event despite scattered showers possible for the rest of the day. Strong local interest and weather mix into final hours before kickoff.
Supt. John Tanner expresses faith in students and supports full disclosure about marijuana and health issues. He backs a two year plan to launch a Human Growth and Development Course for grades one through eight covering drug education and law, stressing student discipline and understanding of law enforcement.
A Scottsdale Daily Progress column lists local servicemen serving in Vietnam with their full mailing addresses. Names include PFC Robert A Burgess, PFC William J Moore, SP4 Ronald L Good, and Charles W Hawkins with unit details and APO/FPO addresses in San Francisco. Readers are invited to submit names and addresses to Vietnam Mailbag.
Cloudy today and tomorrow with showers possible today and tonight. High around 73 with low near 48. Rain chances 60 percent today, 10 percent tonight, and 30 percent tomorrow.
A plan to educate Scottsdale high school students about marijuana and drugs will go before the Board of Education at its March 19 meeting. Principal John Tanner and school and police officials are drafting a course for Scottsdale Saguaro Coronado and Arcadia High Schools to be offered in April. Police Chief Walter Nemetyz outlined the department view as officials debated whether to teach in health classes or special assemblies. The four principals met after a narcotics conference at Saguaro High School sponsored by state official Mrs. Sarah Folsom, who later asked Dr. William Soskin to leave after he urged presenting both sides of the marijuana issue.
Moise Berger, running for the office vacated by Robert K. Corbin, vows to continue programs started four years ago. A Kingman native, 37, Berger moved to Phoenix in 1961 after serving in the Navy in the Korean War. He is a Republican.
Dr John Prince president of the Maricopa County junior college district said he will publicly discuss Scottsdale enthusiasm for a junior college with the board Monday night. He invited Scottsdale residents to speak at 8 pm in Phoenix district office to shape the agenda and report back at a March 25 board meeting. The STEP committee urged a county wide bond to fund the project opening in 1971 on leased land at Chaparral and Pima Roads near the Salt River Indian Reservation.
Rescuers found 16 bodies deep in the maze like depths of the Cargill salt mine where 21 miners were trapped by a Tuesday fire. Clayton Townemaker, a Cargill vice president, said a four man rescue team discovered the dead far from the main shaft as air pumps continued. Relatives waited at Calumet dock as the search entered its 60th hour with no word from the missing men.
The Senate voted 64 to 24 against a southern sponsored effort to strike the open housing provision from the Civil Rights package. The proposal by Senator Sam Ergin would also have removed several anti riot measures added by amendments.
U.S. Marines and government troops joined to rout a North Vietnamese regular battalion near the Dong Ha base south of Leatherneck Square by the DMZ. The combined Allied force reported at least 138 communist fatalities in the engagement.
In Washington Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says the question of sending more troops to Vietnam is tearing at the President's thoughts. He adds he hopes the President will discuss any vital decision with members of Congress before acting.
Negotiations in Washington show possible partial breakthrough after 238 days of strike involving 26 unions and one of four struck companies. No immediate indication which company is involved.
Authorities suspect the crash near Baker California involved a car believed driven by an unemployed cook traveling about 70 mph on the wrong side of the highway. The collision with a bus resulted in twenty deaths reported on page 2.
The Hash Knife cattle operation once ran 60,000 head across vast Arizona lands facing rustling and financial turmoil. The Aztec Land and Cattle Co. sued the U.S. government for 50 years over Sitgreaves timberlands, culminating in a 1952 Supreme Court decision granting title to 98,000 acres. Page Co. later arranged exchanges returning portions of Aztec lands to federal status while acquiring new desert land near population centers.
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