Strike force grand jury urged to combat underworld
Phoenix report says federal government should form a temporary strike force in Arizona with a continuing grand jury to aid local law enforcement against the national underworld. The appeals come as corruption and organized crime allegedly spread, with calls for a crime commission and increased federal funding.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Investigative and Editors Association
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Arizona Association of Industries
Greene
Newsday
Citizens Crime Commission
Chicago
New Orleans
Arizona Republic
Don Bolles
New judge named in Adamson bomb trial
Arizona Appeals Court Judge Donald Froeb orders a new judge for the John Harvey Adamson murder case after a hearing where a restaurant owner linked Adamson to a proposal to burn the business to aid her finances. Judge Frederic Heineman’s rulings stand unless challenged.
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Arizona
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John Harvey Adamson
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Freeb
Maricopa County
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Robert Broomfield
Rufus Coulter
Heineman
Juanita Ames
Mrs. Ames
Arizona Republic
Don Bolles
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atty
Donald Harris
Michalides
Broomfield
Froeb
Superior Court
Appeals Court
Coulter
Bolles
Plaque to mark Little Red School House dedication
A plaque purchased by Scottsdale school children will mark the Little Red School House as a historic site with a 1 p.m. Tuesday ceremony at the School House on Scottsdale Mall. Jodie Knutson and Brian Nicodemus will unveil the plaque while Mayor William C. Jenkins and about 60 students attend.
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Little Red
Scottsdale Mall
Jodie Knutson
Soloma
Brian Nicodemus
Cherokee
William C. Jenkins
Fire injures Scottsdale man in home blaze
A Scottsdale man Lloyd Tindell of 7907 E Loma Land Drive is listed in satisfactory condition at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital after a fire in his living room early today. Rural/Metro Fire Department says the fire began shortly after 3 am and was extinguished by neighbors with a garden hose. Estimated damage is $2000.
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Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
Lloyd Tindell
E. Loma Land Drive
Rural
Metro Fire Department
Obituary Louis Ferrara Dies at 80 in Scottsdale
Rosary services for Louis Ferrara 80 an usher at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in Scottsdale will be at 7 p.m. Sunday in Messinger Mortuary Mass will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the church. He died Friday in Doctors Hospital and is survived by his wife Josephine a daughter Geraldine Curtis two sons Louis P and Russell and six grandchildren.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Scottsdale
Messinger Mortuary
Indian School Road
Mr. Ferrara
E. Virginia
Doctors Hospital
Josephine
Geraldine Curtis
Louis P
Scottsdale and
Russell
Rochester
N.Y
Memorial service for Leo W. LeFavor turns 75
Leo W. LeFavor, 75, a retired truck driver, died Thursday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. Services are at 11 a.m. Monday in Green Acres Chapel. He worked for Hydraulic Brake Supply Co. of Phoenix from 1948 to 1967. Survived by his wife Esther two daughters Elizabeth Dean and Beverly LeFavor both of California one step daughter Esther Mathisen of Phoenix three stepsons Harold MacKay of California Durwood and Donald Macays of Phoenix and four grandchildren.
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Green Acres Chapel
Hayden Rd
LeFavor
66Th St
Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
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Elizabeth Dean
Beverly LeFavor
California
Esther Mathisen
Harold MacKay
Durwood
Donald Macays
Jewelry heist at Pueblo One Indian Arts store
Police report more than 5600 dollars of jewelry stolen from Pueblo One Indian Arts at 3815 N. Brown. Entries entered through a ground level air conditioning duct while photo studio remained intact. Among items taken were two silver squash blossom necklaces and two silver concho belts.
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Pueblo One Indian Arts
N. Brown
Ted Hill Photography
Two Mesa Residents Nabbed After South Scottsdale Chase
Police captured James Paul Valocchi and Virginia Christine Lacks after a high speed pursuit from Sears on Scottsdale Road. A three year old boy believed to be Lacks’s son was found in the back seat. A box with $283 in merchandise was recovered along Hayden Road.
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Mesa
Pierce
Hayden
Will of Martha Mitchell May Be Invalid Without Witnesses
New York AP report says Martha Mitchell may have left an handwritten will worth about 40000 dollars that splits the estate evenly between her son Jay Jennings and her daughter Martha Elizabeth Mitchell, but the document lacks witnessed authentication. Attorney William Herman, who represented Mrs. Mitchell in a separation suit against John N. Mitchell, questions its validity in a Friday letter accompanying the will.
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New York
Martha Mitchell
William Herman
Mitchell
U.S. Atty
John N. Mitchell
Jay Jennings
Six Year Old Mohave Boy Steers Driverless School Bus
Galen Howard, a six year old Mohave boy, took control of a running school bus after driver Jack Bathe, 51, suffered a seizure on a Colorado River Indian Reservation road. He guided the vehicle into a flooded lettuce field, stopping it in the mud with no injuries reported to the twenty students aboard.
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Parker
Galen Howard
Mohave
Jack Bathe
Colorado River
Galen
Bathe
Suit Seeks Void Salt River Election Over Voting Rights
Harold Schurz of the Salt River Indian Reservation filed suit alleging denial of his vote and right to run for tribal councilman in the tribe's November 10 election. He seeks to invalidate the election and nullify its results.
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Phoenix
Salt River
Harold Schurz
Land salesman arraigned in major Phoenix fraud case
The last of 15 suspects in a land fraud ring pleaded innocent at arraignment in Maricopa County Superior Court. Grover Eustace, former salesman for Combined Equity Assurance Corp of Phoenix, was indicted by a state grand jury on Sept 2 and arrested earlier this week in Tucson.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
Grover Eustace
Combined Equity Assurance Corp
Tucson
Arizona leaders receive mixed poll ratings
Behavior Research Center Inc. reports Bruce Babbitt and Carolyn Warner earning good or excellent ratings of 44 and 42 percent from Arizona residents. Governor Raul Castro registers 35 percent good or excellent, while 54 percent rate him as poor or fair. The survey was released Friday in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Bruce Babbitt
Carolyn Warner
Arizona
Raul Castro
Behavior Research Center Inc
Babbitt
DeConcini Names Staff for Washington and State Offices
Senator elect Dennis DeConcini outlines his Washington team with Gene Karp as administrative assistant and Ron Ober as administrative aide. He plans offices in Phoenix and Tucson to begin work when Congress convenes.
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Arizona
Dennis DeConcini
Washington
DeConcini
Pima County
Gene Karp
Ron Ober
Phoenix
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