Scottsdale Real Estate Board Backs 12.9 Million School Bond
The Scottsdale Real Estate Board endorses a 12.9 million bond, citing space constraints and rising enrollment. They urge a May 13 vote for permanent construction over portable classrooms, warning higher costs and bus shifts if approved. Dr. E G Burnkrant urged support, noting crowded schools could hurt sales.
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Scottsdale ‘Real Estate ‘Board
Real’ Estate Association
United States
Rowland Holcombe
Scottsdale
E G. Burnkrant
Phoenix Council Adopts Tobacco and Liquor Taxes
Phoenix City Council votes 2 to on a tax ordinance to balance the coming fiscal year budget. Dissenters were Milton Sanders and Charlie Case. Navy Secretary Chafee rejects a naval court of inquiry findings on the Pueblo incident. Congress to be asked for a major expansion of the federal food stamp program for the poor.
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Milton Sanders
Charlie Case
Phoenix
Washington
Navy
Naval
Lloyd Bucher
Stephen Harris
Congress
Senate Select
Committee On Nutrition and Human Needs
Lawmakers Push Disclosure for Supreme Court Justices
Congressional leaders urge legislation to require Supreme Court justices to publicly disclose all outside income sources. The move references the Abe Fortas controversy, noting Fortas returned a $20,000 fee from a financier's family foundation amid scrutiny.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme’ Court
Everett Dirksen
Gerald Ford
Abe
Fortas
Familly Foundation
Congress group sought White House help in Wolfson case
Reports say a group of congressmen pressed for Nixon to intervene for Louis Wolfson amid stock fraud charges. The White House allegedly refused a meeting to review the Wolfson case. Wolfson began a one year prison sentence on April 25. United States Steel Corp chairman Edwin Gott told Birmingham stockholders 1968 sales rose but tonnage marks were not surpassed due to foreign imports.
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Nixon
Louis Wolfson
White House
Wolfson
Birmingham
Ala
United States Steel Corporation
Edwin Gott
Arab Guerrillas Fire on Lebanese Forces Amid Renewed Clash
Arab guerrillas shelled Lebanese army units from rooftops as fighting flared near the Israeli frontier. Reports vary on casualties but clashes have surged since two weeks of violence between Palestinian refugees and Lebanese security, contributing to upheaval that toppled Premier Karami’s government. In New York and New Orleans campuses, disruptions and guard alerts followed student and militant actions, with national guardsmen on standby at Southern University and City College of New York campuses.
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Mideast
Karami
York
Southern University
New Orleans
National
Newyork
City College of
Scottsdale Budget To Hold At About Six Million
City council expected to approve a 1969-70 budget near $6.06 million with revenue estimates: $2 million local sales tax, $1 million state sales tax share, and $1.05 million property tax. The plan keeps current services, trims commodity and capital spending, and limits city employees to 10 percent total pay increases with 5 percent for cost of living and merit.
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Bob Driscoll
Scottsdale
Closed Board Meeting Raises Legal Questions
The board debated keeping a closed executive session for negotiations on a $400 teacher raise. Assistant supt Ernest Richards and clerk Rev Henry Shaw cited state law allowing executive sessions for negotiations, while board member Tom Larsen noted an attorney general ruling permitting such sessions with a majority vote, but no final action could be taken. Usdane sought a county attorney opinion and urged opening or recessing the meeting until it arrived.
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Donna*bockius
Bob
Usdane
Burt
al Firestein
S ‘Ernest
Richards
Shaw
Tom Larsen
Larsen
Birds Hatch Eggs in Civic Center Run
Monday morning they observed two swans tending three eggs. The five pedcocks were nearby and the guinea hens were uncaged roaming the Civic Center surroundings, the only birds not kept in confinement.
High rise plans and liquor licenses on Scottsdale agenda
City council tonight will consider two high rise developments Camelback Towers at 78th and Camelback and a 10 story apartment hotel east of Scottsdale Rd on Shoeman Lane Also up for adoption is a housing code Two liquor license hearings are scheduled for the Comanche Inn 909 N Hayden Rd and A Z Dairy Drive Inn 1626 N 87th St Four bids will be awarded for Hayden Rd Chesnutt Park sewer equipment and a truck chassis Developers seek permits for Pinnacle Paradise Water Co 1000 ft well near Pinnacle Peak with water area north of Scottsdale and McDowell Mountains. a 240 acre subdivision with two acre lots is planned to the area Arch restrictions set and water not expected in the area State and county approvals pending
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S-City-Council
Civic
78Th
Scottsdale Rd
Shoeman Lane
76Th
McDonald Dr
C. T. Read
Avis
Bob
Hayden Rd
McDowell
Chesnutt Park
Here
Jerry Nelson
Pinnacle Paradise Water Co
Nelson
Pinnacle Peak
Pina Rds
Scottsdale’ Rd
McDowell Mountains
Butcher victim remains found in Arizona irrigation ditch
Police say remains recovered from an irrigation ditch near 99th Avenue and McDowell are believed to be part of Harley Kimbro a Mesa service station operator. Carl Kummerlowe of Scottsdale is jailed on a murder charge after a pickup camper house him and the victim. Tests proceed to confirm identity and cause. Weather forecast calls for showers possible then sunny by Wednesday with near 80 high.
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Phoenix
UPI
Mesa
Harley. Kimbro
Carl Kenneth Kummerlowe
Scottsdale
Kummerlowe
Salt River
99Th Avenue
McDowell
Kimbro
Valley Beautiful awards honor Phoenix area figures
The Valley Beautiful Citizens Committee honored leaders at its fifth annual awards luncheon at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Scottsdale publisher Jonathan Marshall praised urban planning and smog controls while Lewis J. Ruskin urged decisive future growth measures. Awards went to Willard Greene of Paradise Valley and the First Church of Christ Scientist for improving community appearance through site planning and landscape care.
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Valley of the Sun
America
Los Angeles
Valley Beautiful Citizens Committee
Scottsdale “Daily Progress
Jonathan “Marshall
Lewis J. Ruskin
Committee
T. See
The
Valley Beautiful Council
Marshall
Ruskin
Valley’s
Church of Christ Scientist
W. Indian School Rd
Scottsdale
Statewide Unseasonably Cold Weather Grips Arizona
Unseasonably cold weather swept across Arizona in the past 24 hours with snow and rain in most areas. Nogales and Cinco de Mayo events were dampened by showers. Tucson reported 0.45 inches of rain, Payson 0.60, Phoenix area around a quarter inch, and some higher elevations saw light snowfall. The cold air from the storm lowered temperatures this morning.
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United Press ‘International
Arizona
Nogales
Cinco de Mayo
Tucson
Payson
Phoenix
Tucson Man Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice
Robert G. Fossland Jr., 24, pleaded guilty in Tucson to obstructing justice after a charge of assault with a deadly weapon was reduced. He allegedly attempted to fire a pistol at two police officers.
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Tucson
UPI
Robert G. Fossland Jr
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Pinnacle Paradise
Maricopa County
State. Corporation Commission
State’ and ‘County ‘Wealth—Department
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Phoenix Police
Heard Museum
Willard Greene
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