Birmingham Talks Hint at Settlement in Racial Strife
Washington figures raise expectation of a breakthrough in Birmingham protests as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr schedules a news conference. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell says Kennedy hinted at major concessions while Alabama authorities reinforce with 250 state troopers.
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Ala
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
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Adam Clayton Powell
Robert ¥. Kennedy
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Kennedy
New York
Alabama
George Wallace
Montgomery
State Roads Okay
A federal highway engineer said an Arizona interstate, I 8 between Yuma and Gila Bend, is in very good shape despite poor materials. Settling is minimal and unlikely to worsen within five years.
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Washington
UPD
Arizona
Charles H. McDonald
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
House Highways Investigating
Yuma
Gila Bend
McDonald
Wayne O’harra
George Kopecky
Scottsdale Junior College Bond Ballot Defeated Countywide
In Maricopa County 17 000 ballots were cast as residents rejected a 9 700 000 junior college bond 10 496 to 6 532 in a special election held at 29 high schools Arcadia Coronado Scottsdale results shown 539 318 513 172 507 201 Bond funds would have bought Phoenix College and funded new campuses in Scottsdale Phoenix Glendale Mesa Tempe area Dwight Patterson said Phoenix College will be rented from Phoenix Union High Schools College Board and tax funds cannot buy it He blamed voter apathy and noted more parents of potential students than voters Patterson indicated another bond proposal may come later and that operating the system will be expensive A 9 1 defeat in Scottsdale and stronger opposition in Mesa and Glendale marked the countywide rejection of the plan
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Phoenix Union High Schools—College Board
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Glendale
Easter Cat Ruins Bunny Visit For Boy
Spot the East er bunny suffered a broken leg after a cat named Cookie chased it across the yard during Easter. The eight year old owner, Jeff Houton, reports Spot will wear splints and gauze for weeks while weekly vet exams continue. Cookie and Spot have reached an understanding and no longer chase the bunny.
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Jeff Houton
Calle Tuberia
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Lawmaker Cartoons Birmingham Police in Civil Rights Hearing
Rep. Emanuel Celler denounced Birmingham and Greenwood police for barbaric tactics against demonstrators and urged swift civil rights legislation. Sen Keating and Reps Derounian Cahill supported action as hearings highlighted voting rights struggles and language literacy barriers for Puerto Rican Americans in New York.
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UPI
House Judiciary Committee
Birmingham
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Greenwood
Miss
Celler
Alabama
Mississippi
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Steven Derounian
William T. Cahill
R-N.j
Keating
Ceiler
House
Senate
New York
First Americans Taken From Haiti Evacuation Briefed
United States evacuated nearly two hundred Americans from Haiti in a two flight airlift. Sixty eight dependents of embassy staff and one hundred six others on a charter flight with eighty four military dependents departed. OAS Council urged Haiti and the Dominican Republic to avoid actions aggravating the crisis and expanded the fact finding mission to address the deteriorating situation.
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Haiti
Miami
Dominican Republic
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OAS
Scottsdale Woman Leaps From Hospital Wing
A 49 year old Scottsdale woman, Mrs. Robert Tucker, died after leaping from the fourth floor of Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. Police said she moved a chair before climbing to the west wall of wing B and jumping at about 3 45 am. Despondent over health, she had been admitted April 25 for a kidney condition.
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Good Samaritan Hospital
Robert Tucker
E. LaBeata
Phoenix
Williams Said To Be Improving
City Manager Kenneth Williams remains in critical condition at Good Samaritan Hospital after a heart attack. He was hospitalized early Monday but has shown steady improvement according to hospital officials.
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Kenneth Wiliams
Good Samaritan Hospital
Baptist Hospital Plans 125-Bed Addition in Scottsdale
Officials announce a $1 million, 125-bed expansion for Baptist Hospital of Scottsdale conditional on summer census. Administrator Talton Francis says current 60% occupancy at 120 beds drives potential construction with 60,000 square feet over three new floors planned. Architect: Bill J Blair and Associates of Phoenix.
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Indian Bend Water Co Extends Service Area
The state Corporation Commission approved Indian Bend Water Company Inc to extend its service area in the city. The certificate of convenience and necessity covers an area bordered by Indian School Road Osborn 84th Street and the Salt River Indian Reservation. Local officials including Mayor Bill Schrader and City Attorney Osmond Burton testified at the hearing as the city seeks to condemn the private firm amid failed purchase negotiations.
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State Corporation Commission
Indian Bend Water Company Inc
Indian School Road
Osborn
84Th Street
Granite Reef Road
Salt River Indian Reservation
Bill Schrader
Osmond Burton
Gray Ledbetter
Scottsdale
Council Tables Zoning Change Request
The city council tabled a zoning application by developer Harry Lenart seeking rezoning from RI-7 to R-5 and C-1 on about 40 acres at Chaparral and Granite Reef Road. The plan goes to the planning and zoning commission with the C-1 portion deleted after objections from about 50 residents.
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Chaparral
Granite ‘Reef Road
Planning and Zoning Commission
Catholic Doctor Urges NIH to Fund Major Birth Control Research
Dr. John Rock, Harvard emeritus genecology professor, urged NIH to create at least several major fertility research centers. Speaking at a Planned Parenthood luncheon, he argued Catholic doctrine should not block government action on population and called for rapid research into reliable fertility regulation methods. He criticized NIH for spending about 30 million annually on fertility research amid an 800 million budget.
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UPD
National Institutes of Health
John Rock
Harvard University
Planned Parenthood Federation
Rock
NIH
Weather notes and city actions blend with local planning
The report notes mostly cloudy to fair conditions with a high near 102 today and around 65 tomorrow morning, plus yesterday's 105. Sunrise is 5 84 am and sunset 7 16 pm. Phil Messinger says no current development plan for a property, though future plans may include golf, housing, and commercial. Council amends liquor tax rules removing sanitary provisions and private club taxes, empowering the city to enforce and issue permits with a 10 percent penalty for delinquent license fees. Action on Stagebrush Theatre building is deferred pending advisory study. Zoning changes include denying a 6802 EF Pinchot reclassification, adjusting Hayden McKellips parcels, and shifting downtown zones to ease parking. Final plats approved for Villa Monterelo Unit 3 and Shea Paradise. Road sewer project design contract awarded to Cellar Williams and White Engineers. estimated construction near 25,000.
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Boys’ Club
Hayden and McKellips Road
Villa Monterelo
Shea Paradise
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