Coins-for-fountain drive funds youth fountain project
A large pile of coins donated by Scottsdale area elementary school children is inspected by Steven LeSatz a Paiute second grader Roger Saba chair man of the school fund drive and Lisa Berleson a Supai sixth grader. The funds will be used to build Fountain of Youth on the new civic center grounds. The fund drive which has a goal of 7000 will continue next week in area high schools.
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Scottsdale-area
Steven LeSatz
Roger Saba
Lisa Berleson
a—Supai
Civic Center
Saigon fighting rages house to house amid casualties
Reports from Saigon describe heavy house to house fighting as Allied troops push Viet Cong from a northern suburb. Civilian deaths rise as gunners in Vietnam down four U.S. aircraft including two fighters and two helicopters. Other items note Johnson at Atlantic City praising reforms, campus protests criticized, Resurrection City mud and rain, Jordan River gun duels, a John Birch Society plane crash near Denver, a Phoenix union suspension, and two fatal Arizona crashes.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
South
Vietnam
U.S
Denver
A. Phoenix
John’ Birch Society
Frank Marisch’ Jr
Sunior
Shirley
Maurine
Dorothy Jéan
Marisch
Southwest
Phoenix
Czechs Accept Troop Maneuvers With Soviet Backing
Soviet Premier Kosygin left Prague for Moscow after Czech approval of Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers planned for next month on Polish and Czech soil. Western observers say the move aims to forestall invasion reports and show continued Czech Soviet friendship amid the Dubcek leadership.
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Prague
UPI
Alexei Kosygin
Moscow
Warsaw Pact
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Kosygin
Oldrich Cernik
Pompidou warns of Civil War Threat in France
Premier Pompidou accused agitators anarchists and ruffians of seeking civil war in France and ordered police to break up crowds suspending the right of assembly. President de Gaulle warned nationwide television of rising civil war as riots erupted for nine hours across the country with tens of thousands involved.
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Paris
UPI
Georges Pompidou
France
Charles de Gaulleimself
Paris unrest deepens as government faces crisis
Two people were reported killed in fighting Friday night and today with more than 1,000 injured and over 1,000 arrested. Paris police said 795 arrests occurred in battles, 447 wounded civilians treated by hospitals and Red Cross, 176 hospitalised, while Paris University noted about 400 more injuries. Amid nationwide strikes by 10 million workers, protests by students and workers grew, fueling belief De Gaulle era could end. Pompidou planned talks with unions, first direct government discussions in 32 years. De Gaulle asked emergency powers and threatened resignation if not granted a June referendum. Street cries of De Gaulle resign echoed as wage protests rose during a wage freeze.
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Paris
Red Cross
University of Paris
de Gaulle
Europe
France
Pompidou
Western
Leon Blum
Youth Jobs Office Opens in Scottsdale
The Youth Jobs for Scottsdale program launches next week under Mayor Bud Tims to provide summer jobs for students. About 400 to 500 youths have already been placed, and the city urges local employers to offer opportunities to help students earn money and gain work experience. The Scottsdale Office of Youth Jobs is run by the Arizona State Employment Service at 30 Pima Plaza, Suite 9.
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Scottsdale
Bud Tims
Tims
Jobs For
The
State Employment Service
Pima’ Plaza
Weekend Warmth Brightens Forecast Across City
Forecast shows 92 a warm afternoon with highs around 90 to 95 today. Tonight and Sunday remain mild with low 60s to upper 60s and Sunday peaking in the mid 90s.
Burglars Lift 2500 in Scottsdale Home Thefts
Two Scottsdale homes were burglarized Friday with losses totaling over 2500. William O Hair’s residence at 8444 E Sheridan reported two television sets a radio and furs missing valued at over 2000 as occupants were out between 830 and 1130 p.m. Detectives noted entry by prying the kitchen window and loot carried from a front door. In a second break in at 5828 E Wilshire Celene Attway’s home a color television and a radio valued at 530 were stolen while she was at work. No arrests were reported.
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Scottsdale
William O’hair
E. Sheridan
Clydene
E. Wilshire
Modern Math Gains Ground In Scottsdale Schools
District math consultant Shirley Frye argues modern math is easier for students and merely a path to stronger arithmetic. Scottsdale High pupil David Standage won a statewide math contest, with other Saguaro students highly placing in regional and national tests as computers and algebra enter elementary curricula next fall.
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Charles Hill
Shirley ‘Frye
Gary Reedy
Saguaro
Santa Clara, College
Calif
Receiving a Note to Rob Bank Teller Flees
Kathleen Schalageter a Bank of America teller in San Francisco identified a male classmate when he handed a note demanding money. He placed the note and a canvas bag on the counter, but she grabbed the note and fled with the empty bag, avoiding the robbery.
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San Francisco
UPI
Kathleen Schalageter
Bank _of_America
Memorial Day Services At Scottsdale And Green Acres Cemeteries
Memorial Day observances will be held Thursday at Scottsdale Cemetery 6900 BE MacDonald Dr and at Green Acres Cemetery Hayden Rd and Van Buren. Services at 9 am conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3513 and American Legion Post 44, with a second program at 10 am. The day honors servicemen killed in the Civil War, origin of Memorial Day by General John A. Logan.
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Scottsdale Cemetery
MacDonald Dr
Green .Acres
Hayden, Rd
van Buren
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Green Acres
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the ‘Republic
U.S. Fresh Ideas Aimed at Jumpstarting Paris Talks
U S officials say new ideas to end the Hanoi stalemate will be offered when talks resume in Paris. Ambassador Harriman is expected to push for secret negotiations and a halt to all war actions, while Hanoi demands bombing end as the condition to proceed.
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Paris
UPI
United States
Hanoi
Vietnam
U.S
Averell
Harriman
Xuan Thuy
Ducks Placed in Hiderado Park Lake by Local Residents
Mrs. Howard Gemmill and her daughter Kathy placed two Peking ducks in Hiderado Park lake. The ducks were later won by Judge Donald Froeb of Phoenix.
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Hiderado Park Lake
Howard Gemmill
Kathy
Campbell
Donald Froeb
Phoenix
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Phoenix — Operating Engineers Local 428
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Arizonia
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John’ Wetter
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Morristown
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RTM
Communist Party
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