Spring Arrives Across United States as Birds Return
Swallows resume at San Juan Capistrano while dogwood and jonquil bloom spread through southern states. Will Smith of Murphysboro predicts lingering winter with more snow. purple martins arriving soon signal real spring. Water moccasins and woolly worms appearing would confirm the season, says the 76 year old naturalist who runs the American Museum. Sailboats dot northern waters and golf courses reopen from Albany to Dixie.
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United Press International
Capistrano
Willie Smith
Murphysboro
Ill
Smith
Southern Illinois
American Museum
Illinois
San Juan Capistrano
Calif
Floods menace Deep South as James River rises in Virginia
Rain swollen rivers threaten Richmond with a fourth flood in six years while Jackson Mississippi braces for spring flooding. Officials evacuate a few families as merchants board up shops and load goods, and the Mississippi River system floods 1.3 million acres across Mississippi Louisiana and Arkansas prompting sandbag preparation in Winona Minnesota.
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Ross Barnet
Jackson
Miss
Southland
James River
Richmond
James
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Winona, Minn
Farm cost surge spurs push to raise crop price floor
Senate staff report says rising production costs over the last two years justify lifting support targets for major crops. Current ceilings set in 1973 for corn and wheat face a cost-price squeeze as input prices climb and farm product prices may fall, creating pressure for higher floors in 1976.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Earl L. Butz
Congressional
Senate Agriculture
Scouts Organize Clean Up For Keep America Beautiful Day
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will join in a KAB Day cleanup with Phoenix area groups focusing on Dreamy Draw and Papago Park. Hal Bigelow says youth participants learn the impact of litter while units report 48.1 tons recycled last year. Firms Reynolds Metals and Hensley Distributing Co assist.
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Boy Scout
Girl Scouts
Phoenix
Scottsdale
Tempe
Glendale
Hal Bigelow
Phoenix Area
KAB
Boy Scouts
Reynolds Metals
Hensley Distributing Co
Five-arrest burglary ring busted in Phoenix guns thefts
UPI reports five alleged members of a Phoenix burglary ring dealing in guns and stolen cars were in custody while three others were sought. Hebner led the group, with indictments for selling a machine gun and conspiring to sell silencers. Officers seized silencers, stolen guns, and a camper truck at Keiths home. Ware Decker and Jordan face counts on stolen property and vehicle theft and alteration.
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Phoenix
UPI
Maricopa County
Robert Gene Hebner
Michael Lemon Keith
Ted Steve Ware
Dennis Allen Decker
Ralph Maxine Jordan
U.S. Treasury
Hebner
Keith
Ware
Decker
Jordan
Coronado Cheesers fundraiser and school events listing
The Coronado Cheesers fund raise as part of a busy high school program featuring Dons Band concert at 8 p.m. Friday with two directors, auditions for All-State Choir at Mesa Community College, and a March 26 dance marathon to benefit an April trip to Southern California. Also notes SAE turn-about days and DAR Good Citizen awards for Scottsdale area high schools.
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David McDaniel
Curtis Brock
Jim Carpenter
Scott Croft
Tom Manley
Darrel Brown
Doug Wallace
Bob Goodenberger
Ken Goodenberger
Jody Taggart
Pam Hallmark
Julie Neville
Joy Scott
Yvette Pourciau
Debbie Lippman
Kathy Biesant
Mesa Community College
Coronado
California
Maricopa
Daughters of the American Revolution
Good Citizen
DAR
Leona Kennedy
Scottsdale
Pam McNamara
Arcadia High School
Kathy Ann Evans
Susanna Millman
Chaparral
Leslie Greenspan
East
Jane McGoldrick
Gerard
Susie Seipp
Paradise Valley
Carolyn Marney
Scottsdale High
Libby Simon
Saguaro
College to Celebrate Foreign Language Day at SCC
Scottsdale Community College hosts its third National Foreign Language Day with a free day festival noon to 2 p.m. featuring foods from Peru Afghanistan Russia Austria Greece Spain France Poland and more. A German band directed by Charles Sessions will perform as rooms 127 128 129 and the library patio host the event and a $1 International Recipe Book will be sold to fund scholarships.
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Scottsdale Community College
SCC
Charles Sessions
Paris
Peru
Afganistan
Russia
Austria
Greece
Spain
France
Poland
Nations
Scottsdale Historical Society to present City as She Was program
Scottsdale Historical Society will host a Monday meeting at the Little Red School House on the Scottsdale Mall. President Dick Lynch will present notes from Harold McBurney detailing Scottsdale in the 1920s to 1940s, with future talks on Scottsdale High and social life.
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Scottsdale
Harold McBurney
Scottsdale Historical Society
Little Red School
Scottsdale Mall
Society
Dick Lynch
Lynch
McBurney
Forensic language meet set at Shadow Mountain High
Paradise Valley School District hosts its first foreign language forensic at 1 p.m. Saturday at Shadow Mountain High School with Greenway Intermediate Desert Shadows and Shea Middle in competition. Paradise Valley and Shadow Mountain vie for merit certificates and ribbons as students present memorized readings and poems and are judged on pronunciation and poise by judges from ASU GCC and community colleges.
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Paradise Valley
Shadow Mountain High School
East Shea Blvd
Greenway
Desert Shadows Middle School
Shea Middle School
Paradise Valley High School
Arizona State University
Glendale Community College
Scottsdale Community College
Phoenix
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Yul Conaway
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Paper College
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Coronado Cheesers
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Stottsdale
Lori Cox
Disabled American Veterans of Arizona
Student Action For Education
SAE
Tonto
Tonalea
Supai
Scandinavian
Ingel Anderson
Marta
Scandinavia
Sweden
Horway & Denmark
Switzerland
Herculan
Scott
Papago’ Plaza
Scottsdale Rd
sMcbiowel
Southern
Country Club
Woolco
Cotors
Fudder
Scottse
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