Bus route to ASU well patronized in first week
Phoenix transit officials report strong use for Scottsdale Road to ASU line in its first full week of operation. The route runs from 35th Avenue and Camelback Road east to Camelback then south to ASU and The Lakes Tempe, as part of a three-route Scottsdale expansion. Ridership breakdown for Scottsdale is due in about two weeks. Total weekly boardings climbed from 4,418 for the week ending Sept 7 to 8,636 for the week ending Sept 28.
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Scottsdale Road
Arizona State University
Phoenix Transit
Phoenix
35Th Avenue
Camelback Road
ASU
Lakes
Tempe
Scottsdale
Palmer to not seek re election to Paradise Valley council
Vice mayor Oscar Co Palmer Sr announces he will not run in March after ten years on the town council. Other council members weigh re election while candidates file petitions between Nov 4 and Dec 4. Primary is Feb 3 with general vote March 29. Petitions require 38 to 75 signatures and a financial disclosure.
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Paradise Valley
Oscar Co. Palmer
Palmer
Barbara von Ammen
E. Robert Tribken
von Ammon
Peter
Wainwright
L. Barry Palmer
Jeffrey R. Timbanard
J. Duncan Brock
H. Wyman Hitchcock
Marge
Mary Ann Brines
Brines
Brines Adde
Scottsdale considers northeast shift of airport runway
City council members discussed reshaping Scottsdale Municipal Airport runway to move takeoffs farther from Scottsdale Road homes. The plan would extend the northeast end and shorten the southwest end, requiring an FAA master plan update. Critics questioned use of tax dollars and suggested user funding.
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Billie Gentry
Scottsdale Municipal
Gentry
Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale
Phoenix
Herb Drinkwater
Airlink
Paul Messinger
David Harris
General Services Department
Federal Aviation Administration
Heinz Hink
Senate rejects bid to end federal price controls on natural gas
The Senate voted down Sen. Paul Fannin’s proposal to remove federal price controls on domestically produced natural gas. Republicans and gas-state senators favored a more gradual phase-out as urged by the Ford administration, forecasting a slower price rise than the Fannin plan would allow.
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Washington
Senate
Fanning
Reading coordinators clash with ACIL praise at board session
At a Scottsdale school board work-study, reading coordinators denounced the Arizona Consortium for Individualized Learning program as duplicative and wasteful. They cited district use of similar methods, questioned efficacy, and urged funding priorities remain with existing programs.
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Scottsdale
Arizona Consortium
ACIL
State Board of Education
Paul Streich
Alice Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Webb
Beverly Pergeau
Pergeau
Pat Solem
Solem
Teresa Howard
Eeatta Naval
Palute
Arizona Supreme Court to hear SRP flood damages appeal
The Arizona Supreme Court will hear Salt River Project appeal of a lower court ruling that found SRP liable for 1970 flood damages to more than 200 homes south of the canal between Pima and Granite Reef Roads. Mohave Homeowners Association filed suit. jury awarded about 1.1 million total.
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Arizona’ Supreme ‘Court
Salt River Project
SRP
Mohave Homeowners Association
Pima
Granite Reef
Maricopa
County Superior’Court
Arizona’ Court of Appeals
Arizona Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Nicholas Udall
Arizona
Udall
Jennings, Strauss and Salmon
Ucson
John Molloy
Isi Ete
House kills pay hike bill in 5 percent raise vote
The House rejected an 8.66 percent pay raise for Congress and top government officials, approving a 5 percent increase instead. President Ford opposed the higher figure as inflationary, achieving a political victory.
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Washington
Congress
Ford
Millionaire Armand Hammer pleads guilty in Nixon fund case
Armand Hammer, 77, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, pleads guilty in Washington to illegally concealing 54000 dollars in contributions to Nixon’s 1972 re election campaign. Chief Judge William B. Jones sets sentencing date. Hammer is released without bond.
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Washington
Armand Hammer
Richard M. Nixon
U.S
William B. Jones
Occidental Petroleum Corp
Hammer
Mutiny Ends As Lisbon Stations Stand Ground Under Police Promise
Premier Azevedo orders end to military takeover of Lisbon radio and TV outlets. Soldiers guarding Radio Clube Portugues held eight hours before mutiny subsides as civilian police will not replace them. Energy policy talks include Ford administration with Jackson and Staggers seeking congressional accord. Also reports a Bengkulu earthquake in Sumatra with no casualties.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Washington
Senate House
Ford
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Harley Staggers
D-W.va
Congress
White House
Jakarta
Indonesia
Meteorological Department
Bengkulu
Sumatra
Larry MacPhail Dies Noted Baseball Pioneer Ownership
Larry MacPhail father of night baseball and former owner of the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers died today. Weather outlook: mostly sunny today and Thursday with a chance of clouds this afternoon and evening.
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New York
Larry MacPhail
New York Yankees
Brooklyn Dodgers
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