Scottsdale labeled untouchable by insurers over riots
Scottsdale's city council learned 20 insurers refused to bid on the liability contract citing increased municipal risk and lack of government immunity. Only Insurance Company of North America bid, with premiums rising 20 percent to $56,228 for three years. council seeks employee insurance bids with a new cost-saving stipulation. An air conditioning maintenance contract worth $7,100 was awarded to Air Comfort Control, and Motorola won a $4,200 radio-alert receivers contract for reserve firemen.
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Skousen
Philadelphia
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North America
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Hink
Air Comfort Control Company
Civic Center
Parks and Recreation Department
Nixon announces second pullout of 35000 troops from Vietnam
President Nixon reveals 35000 more U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam by December 15 as part of a broader push for meaningful peace talks. He urges Communists to accept negotiations and end the war.
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Nixon
Vietnam
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Paris
Air Force Wives to Meet North Vietnamese Delegation
North Vietnamese representatives agreed to meet four U S Air Force wives seeking information about missing husbands in Vietnam. They were not received due to lack of appointment at the delegation HQ this morning. A relay notes tension over prisoner cases and ongoing diplomacy.
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Washington
Paris
Vietnam
Scottsdale Community College to Open in Portable Classrooms
Scottsdale Community College will open next fall in portable classrooms at Chaparral and Pima Roads as permanent campus construction stalls. Bond sales are blocked by a six percent interest cap, with bids stalled and no contracts possible until the rule is changed by the Arizona legislature.
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John C. Condan
Arizona State Board of Directors
Condon
Scottsdale
Maricopa —County Junior College
Arizona ‘Supreme Court
Maricopa County
John Prince
Chaparral
Pima Roads
Osborn Street Improvement bids due and council eyes permits
Bids for the Osborn Street Improvement District will be opened at 8 tonight at the Civic Center. City Engineer Dick Pearce aims under 160 000 and notes the project will repair potholed Osborn Rd between 70th and Scottsdale, not widen it, due to right of way. The council will also review three use permits for gas stations and a Harpers Nursery expansion, plus a Villa Monterey townhouse plat for 200+ units.
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Villa Monterey
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78Th Sts
Chaparral
Jackrabbit Rd
Daylight Burglars Loot Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe
Police report a daytime burglary at Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe 43 E First Ave downtown Scottsdale. Thieves pried a back door panel and broke a glass front door, stealing rings bracelets and jewelry between noon and 340 pm while the store was closed.
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First Ave
Valley mayors host BBC executive hoax at Scottsdale dinner
11 Valley mayors and business leaders gathered with Chamber officials to honor Reginald Bryson Jeffers, a BBC executive touring U.S. facilities. The guest, revealed as KTBC’s Dick Pryor in disguise, delivered a slyly critical speech in a clipped British accent while staff and hosts reacted with laughter.
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Scottsdale
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KDOT
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Austin
Texas
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Scottsdale Forms Second Volunteer Fire Company Now
The city parks and recreation staff leads 18 new fire wranglers to support the Rural Fire Dept. A first volunteer crew averages 4.6 responders per fire. City Manager Bill Donaldson says the kept truck at Miller and Van Buren costs under 14 thousand annually, far less than a full-time four-man crew. Wranglers earn 25 dollars monthly first year up to 40, plus 4.80 an hour when called after hours. Each crew has five members and works 24 hours a day for a week, with radios for dispatch.
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Parks . and Recreation Department
Bill Donaldson
Miller and van Buren
Scottsdale
Donaldson
Aftershock records from Nevada nuclear test disturb Paradise Valley
Paradise Valley resident Willard Greene reports eight point tremor readings on the Richter scale after a Nevada Pahute Mesa hydrogen warhead blast. He says the shocks began minutes after the blast and may be unrelated, with scientists saying weeks are needed to determine any connection. Greene runs a weather station near Mimmy Mountain tracking seismic activity.
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Nevada
Willard Greene
Pahute Mesa
Greene
Gulf of California
Histhome
Mimmy
Weather outlook with hot trend and chance of thundershowers
Sunny today with partial clouds later this afternoon and tonight. A thundershower is possible this afternoon or tonight. Wednesday looks mostly sunny with a chance of an evening shower. Warmer days ahead with highs around 92 to 97 today and 94 to 99 Wednesday. rain probability near zero today.
Senator Proposes Special Court for Arizona Tax Disputes
State Senator Dave Kret of Scottsdale proposed a special court to hear all types of tax disputes in Arizona and handle other cases when not hearing tax matters. The Senate subcommittee debated assessment practices amid a court ruling lowering state valuation on the Four Corners pipeline. Arlo Woolery, director of the State property valuations department, said standard methods had been used and that other states face more problems in property tax.
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Arizona
Dave Kret
Scottsdale
Senate
Four Corners
Arlo Woolery
State Property Valuations Department
Woolery
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