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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1966
Page
8
Union says 65 Scottsdale and 166 Tempe city employees seek recognition as sole bargaining agent for waste collection. Council delays decision by two weeks while workers face job threats and potential strikes amid ongoing labor dispute with Waste Control.
Wild street battles erupted as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police near the art gallery. Police backed by mounted units pushed back rioters, while pro and anti Johnson factions traded shouts. Johnson appeared distressed as he entered the gallery en route to Manila.
Police report a gunman robbed a Tempe bank, escaped front exit, fled to a waiting car six to eight blocks away. Vehicle later found, reported stolen. Bank president estimates losses at 2146 dollars. Suspect described as 5 foot 8 to 5 foot 10, 180 to 200 pounds with brown hair, wearing construction worker clothing. Witnesses recall a brown paper sack used to carry cash and a tear gas capsule involved.
A 100 bodies counted with about 60 missing as a 200 ton coal waste mountain engulfed Pantglas Elementary on Merry Road in Aberfan Wales. Rescue workers labored through the night amid mourning parents and shattered scenes in the chapel morgue.
Interior shows concrete and glass as students return to busy days at Saguaro High School. The Arizona statehood context and opinions on state policy are touched upon in the publication’s historical sidelight. A New York UPI report notes Americans favor disclosure of cigarette advertising.
A Mekong Delta marketplace explosion by terrorists wounded 48 and killed nine, including four children. Officials say four soldiers and five civilians died during the peak hour in Tra On, about 75 miles southwest of Saigon. U S Navy boats aided victims as American sailors donated blood.
U S Navy and Air Force pilots report sinking or damaging about 150 Communist barges slipping southward along the North Vietnamese coast. Navy planes attacked a fleet of 300 barges. 125 were destroyed or severely damaged. Thunderchiefs hit 50 more, sinking 15 and damaging 10.
Dell Chambers, 21, of Phoenix faces sentencing November 10 on murder charges in Maricopa County Superior Court over the death of his wife Mae Alice. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the same case.
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