Arizona bids to build nation's first solar plant at Gila Bend
Arizona Public Service Salt River Project and Tucson Gas Electric form ASPP to submit a 100 million ERDA proposal for a 10 MW solar station on a 300 acre site west of Gila Bend. The plant would power about 2,500 homes and could start in 1980 if funded.
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Gila Bend
Arizona
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Arizona Public Service
Salt River Project
Tucson Gas & Electric Co
Arizona Solar Power Project
ASPP
APS
Keith Turley
Phoenix Press Club
Turley
Schorr Refuses to Reveal CIA Leak Source
CBS reporter Daniel Schorr defies a contempt threat by refusing to name who gave him a copy of a secret House intelligence committee report. He argues First Amendment protection for press sources and declines to surrender his notes or the report copy. The ethics panel pressed for answers during the subpoenaed hearing.
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Washington
Daniel Schorr
House Ethics Committee
House Intelligence Committee
CBS
Schorr
Ethics Committee
John J. Flynt
Flynt
House
Village Voice
New York
Intelligence Committee
Scottsdale High counselor guides freshmen on campus
Junior counselor Jim Schaller, one of 35 to 40 student-age counselors at Scottsdale High, advises three freshmen about school life. The helpers support 10 to 15 peers, assist in freshman orientation, and fill in when adult counselors are unavailable on campus under a ramada with Marlene Rehn, Marcy Sanchez and Calee Palmer nearby.
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Jim Schaller
Scottsdale High School
Schaller
Ramada
Scottsdale High
Marlene Rehn
Marcy Sanchez
Calee Palmer
MCCCD seeks bond election before December fifteenth
Maricopa County Community College District board favor holding a $20 million general obligation bond vote before Dec 15 to fund campus projects. Scottsdale CC would get 3.33 million for music, fine arts and classrooms. Glendale, Maricopa Technical, Mesa and Phoenix allocations listed plus 982 thousand for repairs, studio, and print shop. Acting president A W Flowers says funds will meet growth needs for five to eight years while prior bonds totaled 9.8 million in 1969 and 5 million in 1964.
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Maricopa County
Brooks
Scottsdale Community College
Glendale Community College
Maricopa Technical
Mesa
Phoenix
A. W. Flowers
MCCCD instructors tour fee conflict sparks audit
A watchdog audit of Journey Associates prompts Maricopa County Community College District leaders to suspend all out of country tours. Four instructors, including Maurice Garson, allegedly earned up to nine thousand dollars for one month of humanities tours while students paid about fourteen hundred dollars each. Board member Roger Brooks labels the practice a conflict of interest and seeks a county attorney probe.
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Bonnie Foster
Maricopa County Community College Board
Journey Associates
Roger Brooks
Brooks
Scottsdale
Phoenix
Maurice Garson
Scottsdale Community College
CAP critics enter race for district board seats
Ten seats on the CAP governing board will be decided in November with five independent critics from Maricopa County and four CAP critics from the county, plus one Pinal County seat. The slate includes incumbents seeking re election and candidates from Pima and Pinal counties. Filing closed September 3 requiring 200 signatures.
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Central Arizona Project
Maricopa County
CAP
Central Arizona Water Conservation District
AWCD
Pina County
Pinal County
Pima County
Pinal
CAP Board
Jack Williams
Roger Ernst
Phoenix
Morris Warren
Germaign Ball
Virgil Katterhenry
Frederick Stofft
Ray Killian
G. Clarke Bean
Thomas Chauncey
Dwight Patterson
Glenn V. Overmen
Dan Clarke
Quentin Mees
John Sullivan
Walter Armour
Howard Wuetz
Ernest
Warren
Katterhenry
Stofft
Killian
Overmen
Lynn H. Sharp
Gilbert Diaryman
Rose Mofford
Dale R. Shumway
Tempe
Darwin Aycock
Afl-Cio
Charles Downs
Arizona State University
Rosa Lee Gill
ASU
John D. Lyons Jr
David Torres
Robert “Bob” Uhl
Cudahy Corp
Ernst
Arizona Public Service
APS
Federal Land Bank Association of Phoenix
Mesa
College of Business Administration
Scottsdale Road Project Keeps Original Pace Unchanged
City council told Bentson Contracting Co. to proceed with paving between Indian School and Osborn as planned. Work will begin Thursday with one lane open during two days of partial paving, and textured crosswalks will be installed later this month.
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Bentson Contracting Co
Scottsdale
Bentson
Indian School
Osborn Roads
George Iannella
Capital Improvement Engineering
Council
Osborn
Scottsdale Road
Timothy Bray
Community Development Department
Indian School Road
House OKs ban on new mines in Organ Pipe NM and nearby parks
The House passed a bill prohibiting new mining within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and extending to Coronado National Forest Death Valley National Monument and other parks in Oregon and Alaska. The Senate had approved a similar measure earlier.
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Washington
U.S. House
Arizona
Organ Pipe National Monument
Coronado National Forest
Death Valley National Monument
California
Oregon
Alaska
Senate
Ford Begins First Campaign Swing From Washington
President Ford launches his initial campaign trip outside the capital with a speech at his alma mater the University of Michigan. He plans to touch on domestic and foreign policy and promises some surprises as he campaigns within miles of Jimmy Carter who is prepping a major address.
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Washington
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
White House
University of Michigan
House committee to probe Kennedy and King assassinations
Rules Committee approves a resolution creating a special House panel to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. The measure moves to the House floor with no set date and could extend to include possible inquiries into other killings such as that of Robert F. Kennedy.
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Washington
House
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Rules Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Navy announces collision near Scotland between JFK and Bordelon
The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the destroyer Bordelon collided during a refueling operation about 100 miles north of Scotland on Tuesday night. No fatalities. six Bordelon sailors were injured, two seriously, while Kennedy crew remained unharmed.
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Washington
Navy
John F. Kennedy
Scotland
Kennedy
Senate panel rejects Brown push to include farm workers in unemployment program
Washington A Senate Finance Committee vote denies California Governor Edmund G Brown Jr a plan to extend federal unemployment compensation to farm workers. The panel reopened the issue after removing a House provision on farm workers from the bill. Moscow A Soviet Soyuz 22 mission launches for a short, self contained flight not aiming to dock with the space lab, cosmonaut says.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Moscow
Soviet Space Laboratory
Vladimir Aksenov
Richard Speck parole denial recounted at Stateville hearing
Richard Speck, convicted in 1966 of killing eight student nurses in Chicago, was denied parole. Relatives of the victims attended the Stateville Penitentiary hearing to press the board to keep him jailed.
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Joliet
Richard Speck
Chicago
South Side
State Parole Board
Stateville Penitentiary
Speck
Weather Outlook Calls for Warm, Pleasant Skies
Today remains generally fair with high in the upper 90s. Tonight stays warm as temperatures ease. Thursday brings variable cloudiness and cooler air with a high near 95 and an overnight low in the lower 70s.
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Florida
CIA
CBS News
SCC
Bob Johnstone
MCCCD
Franklin D. Aleshire
Scottsdale Center For the Arts
Bray
Associated Press
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