09 Mar 1971
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1971
Page
1
Medford Oregon councilman Douglas Schroeder faces citizen complaints about his hair length. He replies that only a higher authority can permit it to grow and suggests taking the matter up with that authority.
UPI reports Chinese Premier Chou En Lai’s Hanoi trip seen as morale boosting rather than a signal of China preparing to enter Laos fighting. US officials say China unlikely to intervene unless North Vietnam faces a major disaster and an allied invasion of the North becomes possible.
The Arizona Racing Commission reinstated dogs from Gene Vale Kennels at Phoenix Greyhound Park after last month suspensions. Vale's attorneys filed for a temporary injunction from Maricopa County Superior Court, with Judge Donald Froeb continuing the injunction as the case proceeds.
The trial of Steve Lee Lewis 19 opened with jurors chosen after he pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. Lewis faces two counts for the July 8 shooting of William Ramsey Tait 22 Metrick NY and John Chris Gast 24 Phoenix as another man, David K Anderson 21 Syosset NY, escaped injury while a fourth, Derrell Lynn Doyal 19, pleaded guilty to a murder charge in a narcotics double cross case linking a $9000 plan to buy marijuana.
Six American airmen seized near an Ankara radar station were released after five days in captivity by Turkish Liberation Army guerrillas. The captors demanded 400000 dollars, but the Turkish government said no ransom was paid and the airmen were treated well during the confinement.
Scottsdale's Debbie Toscano earns Miss Photography of 1971 by the Arizona Press Club. She helps present the Gridiron Show and awards banquet March 21 at the Phoenix Ramada Inn with $10 tickets via the Press Club, Box 1950, Phoenix. Toscano is Calvin and Mrs. Toscano's daughter and previously was first runner up at the Wheels Convention in New York. She also appeared on Co-Ed Magazine cover as High School Cover Girl of America.
William L. Smith, 34, and his wife Deanna, 30, both of 8528 E. Catalina, were released on $1 bonds after Sunday arrests on petty theft charges. Police say they took four sheets of plywood and 19 pieces of lumber from a construction site near Mesa and Southern Drives and are to appear in Mesa City Court.
UPI reports U S air strikes on the Ho Chi Minh Trail junction near Sepone caused a massive wave of secondary explosions. Spokesmen say 1 600 additional blasts from Monday to Tuesday and 500 from Sunday in the same area, with 2 100 recorded in two days. Separate battles in Laos and near Lao Bao yield hundreds of enemy casualties and logistic disruptions. A delayed U S Command note says two F 4 Phantom bombers dropped Kapal amid advancing South Vietnamese troops, killing eight and wounding 64.
Magma agma Copper Co. gains a conditional state air permit to continue operating its San Manuel smelter. The board requires installation of a Special flash furnace by 1974 at an estimated cost of 50 million dollars to cut emissions below state standards. Mesa Paving Co. withdraws an asphalt plant proposal at San Manuel for nonconforming plans.
Mohave School at 5520 N 86th St suffers extensive vandalism over the weekend. Ken Kellogg head custodian reports broken windows in classrooms and principal’s office, torn speakers and cages, roof damage, cement poured into a drinking fountain, and water turned on. Estimates for repairs pending.
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