Mansion blaze leaves five dead near Santa Cruz
Firefighters found Dr Victor M Ohta age 45, his wife Virginia 43, two sons Derrick 12 and Taggart 11, and secretary Dorothy Cadwallader 38 bound and shot before being hurled into a pool at a hillside mansion. Investigators tied the blaze to the killings and searched for an missing Oldsmobile station wagon. Nearby Paso Robles and Saratoga incidents prompted fears of related slayings in the area.
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Soquel
UPI
Pacific
Victor M. Ohta
Virginia
Derrick
Taggart
Dorothy Cadwallader
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Ohta
Paso Robles
Ronald Barnes
Betty
Saratoga
18 Arrested in Valley Narcotics Crackdown
Larry Edward Taylor an 18 year old of 07936 K Latham was among 18 persons arrested by Department of Public Safety narcotics officers Monday in a crackdown on known narcotics dealers in the Valley. Taylor was charged with furnishing marijuana and booked into Scottsdale city jail. He was arrested at 9 35 p m at the Betty Crocker Tree House restaurant 3221 N Scottsdale Rd where he was employed. Authorities allege the 18 persons arrested Monday had sold narcotics to undercover agents during an investigation covering the past six months.
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Larry Edward Taylor
K. Latham
Department of Public Safety
Taylor
Scottsdale
Scottsdale Rd
Kiwanis Club of Paradise Valley elects Cope president
Cope Raymond W. Cope of 6102 E Calle Camelia is chosen president of the Kiwanis Club of Paradise Valley for 1971. He will be installed at a banquet Saturday evening at Neptune's East on Camelback Road. Other officers include Leonard W. Young and Dwight L. Flater as VPs, Harold D. Erickson as secretary, and Donald E. Ruff as treasurer. The club, with about 40 members, plans a year of service projects including drug abuse control and ecology efforts.
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E. Calle Camelia
Kiwanis Club
Paradise Valley
Cope
United States Naval
Arizona State University
Neptune’s
Leonard W. Young
E. Camelback Rd
Dwight L. Flater
E. Weldon
Harold D. Erickson
Carefree
Donald E. Ruff
Paradise Valley Kiwanis Club
Burglary Reports Dozen Tools Stolen In Scottsdale
Police say between Friday and Sunday morning a tool box and tools valued at 200 dollars were stolen from the James Jorgenson residence at 8531 East Monterrey. An east side door to the garage was pried open. At 8416 East Wilshire the utility room door was forced and tools and an electric drill valued at 278 dollars were taken. Break in occurred between 5 30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.
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Scottsdale
James Jorgenson
Monterrey
Dorothy Wilson
Wilshire
Robbery at Jack-in-the-Box on East Indian School
Two young men with a revolver robbed the Jack-in-the-Box at 8030 East Indian School Road around 11:15 p.m. They demanded cash from Terry Cox and then took more from a safe as Greg Emry assisted by feeding money to the suspects.
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Indian School Rd
Terry Cox
E. Vista Dr
Cox
Greg Emry
Papago Circle
Tempe
Hungerford Defends Judges At Tempe Legion Talk On Juvenile Reform
Republican candidate Bob Hungerford told Tempe's American Legion hall that arts judges err from not wanting to send youths to Fort Grant or Florence State Prison. He urged humane juvenile facilities to reintegrate youths and cut long term costs from hardened criminals.
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Bob Hungerford
Arizona House of Representatives
American Legion Hall
Tempe
Jain
Fort Grant
Florence
Murray elected to national corrections board
Ken Murray, Scottsdale's vice mayor, was elected to the board of directors of the National Corrections Association last week at the 100th convention in Cincinnati. He is chief of Correctional Industries for the Arizona Department of Corrections and will represent 11 western states plus Hawaii and Alaska.
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Scottsdale
C.K
Ken
Murray
National ‘Corrections Association
Arizona Department of Corrections
National Post
NCA
Cincinnati
Hawaii
Alaska
Foreclosure Sought on JD's Tempe Nightclub Mortgage
In Phoenix two promissory notes totaling 106,887 dollars prompted Elsie Guimont and Hazel Musil to petition Superior Court for a sheriff's auction of JD's of Arizona nightclub in Tempe. The notes from 1968 and 1969 secured by the club allegedly allowed immediate possession if payments were not made within 20 days of due date.
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Phoenix
UPI
Tempe
Superior Court
Elsie Guimont
Hazel Musil
Jd’s
Arizona, &Nc
Jd's
Jury identifies Ong remains in desert tragedy near Carefree
A Scottsdale coroner's jury ruled that oct 1 remains in the desert near Bartlett Lake are eight year old Michelle Ong. The August desert tragedy killed five, including Darlene 12 Scotty 10 Linda Dicino 10 and Ann Gibbs grandmother of the Ong children.
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Scottsdale
Bartlett Lake
Michelle Ong
Carefree
Ong
Darlene
Scotty
Desert
Linda Dicino
Daphne Dicino
Ann Gibbs
Kent State Riot Arrests Rise As Grand Jury Actions Continue
Kent State University confronts new arrests as a state grand jury probes last spring’s fatal shootings of four students. Two more suspects, Larry Shub and Douglas Cormack, surrender to Portage County authorities, facing first and second degree riot charges.
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Kent
Ohio
UPI
Kent State University
Kent State
Larry A. Shub
Cleveland Heights
Douglas C. Cormack
Willoughby
Portage County Sheriff's Office
Cormack
Shub
Craig Morton
Air Force
National Guard
Morgan
Jerry H. Rupe
Richard C. Felber
Akron
Two Suspects Held in East Scottsdale Carport Theft
Police arrested LeRoy McCowen 21 from 944 E Monroe on vagrancy burglary and grand theft charges. He AWOL from the Marine Corps and is held for Phoenix Police on a separate grand theft claim. William McKinley Gray Jr. 20 of Phoenix was later charged with first degree burglary and grand theft from an auto. Tools worth 80 dollars were taken from 2523 N 85th Pl storage and 118 dollars of items from James H Lewis’s auto at 8502 E Turney.
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East Scottsdale
LeRoy McCowen
E. Monroe
McCowen
U.S. Marine Corps
Phoenix
85Th Pl
Lewis
William McKinley Gray Jr
E. Pleasant
Scottsdale
William Smith
James H. Lewis
E. Turney
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United Press International
F.J. DuPont
Ae “Glore Forgan, & Co
Alcoa
American Can
American Motors Ra
At&t
Anaconda
Arizona
Snc
Bell & Howell
Bendix
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Chrysler
CBS
Control
DuPont
Eastern Airlines
Eastman
Emerson Y
Fairchild Camera
Ford Motors
Frontier
General Dynamics i
General Electric
General Motors
General Telephone
Goodyear
Honeywell
IBM
Johns Manville
Kennecott
Litton
Marcor
Minnesota Mining
Motorola
North Amn
Rockwell
Northrup
Owens Illinois
Pan
American
Pg&e
Parke Davis
Penn Central
Pepsico
Polaroide
Raytheon
RCA A
San Diego G&e
Santa Fe
Sears Roebuck
Southern Pacific
Sperry Rand
Standard of Calif. Standard of N.J
Texaco
Texas Gulf
Union Oil
Uniroyal
United Aircraft
U.S. Steel
Webb
Xerox
Zenith
Ken Murray
East Thomas
Jocko’s Fish
E- Indian School Rd
Granite Reef
Gary Laniken
Leeann Ghlee
E.main St
Jd's Auction
Gray
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