Legislature Lacers Toward Tax Equalization Ahead of Final Week
In Phoenix the 26th Legislature heads into a last week of the regular session with tax equalization as the main issue. House Ways and Means aims to report a tax bill today while Senate leaders anticipate committee work early next week. Senator Ray Thompson unveils a rival plan creating a seven member board of appraisal standards from five counties, the tax commission chief, and county assessors president.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
John Haugh
Apima
Haugh
Senate
Clarence Carpenter
Revenue and Finance Committee
Ray Thompson
D-Yuma
Thompson
Yuma
State Tax Commission
State Association of County Assessors
Scottsdale Rep Kret urges revaluation to fix property taxes
Republican representative David Kret attacks the state tax commission for failing to enforce property appraisal law. He calls for annual revaluation using forms distributed to property owners, with data processed by computer or hand to achieve faster, cheaper statewide reassessment.
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Kret
Tax Commission
Kennedy urges immediate and long term steps to cut unemployment
President Kennedy told Congress that rapid stimulus must be paired with long range measures to reduce joblessness. He stressed manpower concerns and the need for retraining and higher skill levels as unemployment falls, linking tax proposals to economic recovery.
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UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Manpower Development and Training Act
School Case Hearing Set For Today Eviction Suit Over Paradise Valley School
Hearing is set in Superior Court before Judge Robert L. Myers on a suit to evict more than 700 students from Paradise Valley Elementary School No. 2. Attorney Phillip Goldstein represents owner Robert Althert, with the case transferred from Judge George M. Sterling’s court to Myers’ jurisdiction.
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Paradise Valley
Robert L. Myers
Phillip Goldstein
Robert Althert
N. 32Nd Street
George M. Sterling
Myers
State Hospital Probe Sought
Rep. Harold Cook calls for an investigation of security at the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix. He notes multiple inquiries about escapes and says the hospital administration must take responsibility for keeping dangerous inmates under control.
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Phoenix
UPS
Harold Cook
D-Pima
Arizona State Hospital
Cook
Statewide property reassessment plan outlined by Thompson
The proposal would direct a full cash value statewide reassessment by private contractors with results due to the legislature by Jan 15, 1964 and a $750,000 appropriation. Tax assessment practices would be frozen during the study, contrasting with the Haugh Palmer measure which aims to freeze practices for 1963 and impose fixed percentages.
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Thompson
Haugh
Sen
David Palmer
D-Yavapai
Haugh - Palmer
Haugh-Palmer
State Tax Commission
Scottsdale annexation trial postponed again in Maricopa County
A November Scottsdale annexation case, challenging four square miles, was postponed for at least two weeks. George Wittman, via special attorney general Charles Brewer, contends petitions lack 50 percent property valuation and proper maps. The area sits near Scottsdale Road Gold Dust Avenue Pima Road and Bell Road.
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Maricopa County Superior Court
Osmond Burton
Charles Brewer
Brewer
George Wittman
Wagon Wheeler
Scottsdale Road
Gold Dust Avenue
Pima Road
Bell Road
Invasion if Soviet arms return to Cuba
McNamara warned that sending more Soviet troops to Cuba would be an invasion, as he testified to the House Armed Services Committee. He said surveillance reveals underground caverns storing surface to air missiles, but no large offensive missile system is believed on the island. Dirksen floated a selective blockade as a possible tactic to topple Castro, while Deputy Defense Secretary Gilpatric said he does not know how many of the 17 000 Soviet troops remain. War whoppers tagged by Rep. Celler drew rebuke from critics of Kennedy policy.
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GOP
Roswell Gilpatric
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Kenneth Keating
R-N.y
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
William E. Miller
Weather forecast shows mostly fair skies and cooling
The forecast calls for some cloudiness at times but mostly fair conditions today tonight and tomorrow. Breezy after noons with a cooler night. Highs near 72 today and near 70 tomorrow with a low around 40 tomorrow morning. Yesterday’s high was 71 and low this morning 45. Sunrise 6 44 a m Sunset 6 33 p m.
Turn To Lab To Identify Dead Woman
Sheriff investigators began laboratory tests to identify a woman found buried in a shallow grave near Beeline Highway and Sycamore Creek in the Sunflower area. Four Phoenix hunters discovered the remains, which included clothing, blond hair, and a dental plate, and dated to within two months.
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UPI
Sunflower
William Wats
Gary Armstrong
Orville Kim
John Rohmer
Beeline Highway
Sycamore Creek
Bidault Denied Asylum as West Germany Debates Status
West Germany's Bavaria announced it would grant asylum to fugitive former French premier Georges Bidault once he requests it. Chancellor Adenauer refused to accept Bidault’s letter, straining France West Germany ties as Bidault faces possible deportation and new asylum options in Switzerland or Austria.
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UPI
Bavaria
Georges Bidault
United Press International
Konrad Adenauer
Charles de Gaulle
Bidault
Adenauer
West Germany
France
Switzerland
Austria
Steinebach
Paris
de Gaulle
Winter Storm Wallops Texas And Midwest
A late winter storm spread from the border to the Midwest bringing wind, snow, and a tornado in Texas. Severe warnings covered northeast Texas and southeast Oklahoma as a line of heavy showers moved northeast. No casualties were reported though damage occurred in Kaufman and Nash Grain Co. with an estimated 100000 dollars.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Upper Midwest
New England
Kaufman
Tex
H. L. Evans
Nash Grain Co
A record Scottsdale Indian art show closes with praise
A record 9,000 attended the second annual Scottsdale National Indian Art Exhibition at the Executive House Arizonian. It drew 372 entries from Indian artists across Alaska to Arizona, with 231 works exhibited and art valued at 7 000 dollars sold mainly to out of state collectors and local buyers. Dorothy Maxwell of Farmington NM called it the finest show in the country.
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Scottsdale
Alaska
Paul Huldermann
Dorothy Maxwell
Farmington, N.M
Scottsdale Traffic Accidents Send Five to Hospital
Five people were hospitalized after multiple traffic crashes in Scottsdale yesterday causing over 2000 in damages. Police cited James Norris and Ricklan Curry in a Scottsdale and Thomas Road collision.
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James Joe Norris
E. Windsor
Phoenix
Ricklan Curry
Scottsdale and
Thomas Rds
Curry
Patricia R. Curry
Wayne, O
Panice A. Curry
Tempe
Scottsdale Baptist Hospital
Messinger Ambulance Service
Norris
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