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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1973
Page
1
Old Town merchants launch a cleanup drive to improve downtown alleys. In the upper photo William Moore and Richard Saba supervise volunteers from Mazis as they clear debris around a dumpster with Roger Saba Greg Fenderson Charles Keane and Brian Keane assisting.
The Old Town Merchants Association with Scottsdale Chamber Beautification Committee and Mozis began a city cleanup. About 20 volunteers removed six loads of trash from alleys behind Scottsdale Road north of Main Street. Charles Keane says the effort aims for year round monthly blitz cleanups and ongoing alley policing.
Thirteen tornadoes struck parts of northwestern and southeastern Texas ripping roofs from homes uprooting trees and causing heavy property damage. Thunderstorms lingered with no injuries reported. Eight inches of rain drenched Galveston in 24 hours as hail battered the coast and flash flood warnings were issued.
The State Highway Commission approved nearly 1.1 million dollars in construction contracts and right of way acquisitions. A 210,655 purchase for a 3S unit motel in east Phoenix funds the Papago Freeway inner loop path. The commission also authorized 202,544 for a 3.1 acre East Kingman Interchange site on Interstate 40. Additional awards include 210,818 to Tom Dooley Construction of Tempe for a Flagstaff lab building, 162,882 to William Myers Construction for a Holbrook yard shop, and 127,777 to Royden Construction of Phoenix to lengthen a bridge on State 84 near Casa Grande.
A Phoenix man and four others were injured in a two-vehicle crash early today on Scottsdale Road. Amond R. Palmer, 25, was listed in good condition at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. Passengers Mary Ann King, 17, Ronald Finley, 18, and Patricia Jaiia, 17, were treated and released. Also treated was Thomas P. Duffy, 38, of Chicago, a passenger in the second vehicle. Judith A. Tintera, 36, was cited for driving while intoxicated and for failing to yield from a private drive. Palmer was cited for unsafe passenger load. A 17-year-old Scottsdale driver was treated and released after a separate collision near Second Street and Wells Fargo Road. Darrell E. Carpenter, 48, was cited for failing to yield from a stop sign.
UPI reports negotiations to free the remaining American POWs in Vietnam were stalled when negotiators refused new Communist demands. Brig. Gen. Wickham accepted a list of 32 POWs with no conditions, while the Communists linked freedom to U.S. troop redeployment by March 28 including embassy guards and JMC personnel. The Laos prisoners remained excluded.
About 20 ranchers blocked by the San Carlos Indian Tribe refuse to quit grazing on the Mineral Strip by the July 1 eviction order unless compensated for the loss of the range. The tribe, which acquired the land in 1969, says it needs the land for its own cattle.
Cecilia Esquer of Tempe elected as one of 25 at large members of the Democratic National Committee after two days of committee debate. At 30 she serves as vice chairman of Los Unidos, a local Chicano group seeking greater Mexican American representation on the committee.
Air Force Lt. Col. Jack Van Loan to be greeted on arrival at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base after nearly six years as a prisoner of war. He was shot down near Hanoi in May 1967 and is to be welcomed by city officials and Air Force personnel in a formal red-carpet ceremony.
Harold H. Moore described former Sheriff's Capt. Ralph McMillen as a good cop with grandiose ambitions. Moore testified he fired McMillen in May 1968 after learning of his associations with state legislators and working against department orders during a Merit Commission hearing into McMillen's January appeal.
A search started this morning for a Mooney Mark 21 plane that vanished Friday with two men aboard en route from Delhart Texas to Falcon Field in Mesa. Pilot Virgil Brewer of South Bend Indiana and his brother Harold were on board.
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