Budget Pressure Mounts as County Plans Cuts for 1965 66
Board of Supervisors faces required cuts of about 4.5 percent from the 1965 66 budget after totaling department requests at 9 4 million dollars, up from 8 21 million the previous year. Finance Director Richard Kittle notes revenue from sales tax plus year end results will determine exact reductions, with initial targets shaping departments already strained.
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Board of Supervisors
Dhop Supervisors
Thombudget
Approximas
Jay
Richard Kittle
Kittle
Recorder's Office
House group discusses 19.4 million education plan in Phoenix
Speaker Jack Gilbert reports a majority bloc proposal totaling 19.675 million to fund schools universities colleges and juvenile institutions. Revenue sources include a cigarette tax increase restaurant tax growth racing receipts and higher income taxes with a focus on corporate and big taxpayer contributions. Bonding authority for the Board of Regents remains opposed and the session extends at least a week.
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Phoenix
House
Jack Gilbert
D-Cochise
Fort Grant
Gilbert
Senate
Board of Regents
Three Taxpayers Edge Overassessments At June Board Hearing
Sitting as a Board of Equalization the County Board of Supervisors heard three complaints of overassessment on June first day. Orth owners apartments on N 2nd Street Elm Street and Lee Street seeks relief amid vacancy and looming bankruptcy. Gardner property in the 4400 block of E Lee Street facing foreclosure also challenged. Scurlock asks review of his trailer home at 810 W Limberlost Street as overvalued.
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Board of Equalization
Board of Supervisors
He, Orth
Abraham Gardner
Orth
N. 2Nd St
E. Elm St
E. Lee St
Gerald Hirsch
Gardner
Joseph Scurlock
W. Limberlost St
Court Sentencings in Pima County Superior Court
Archie Neville Downs 35 simple battery six months probation. Larry Lee Lawson 23 breaking into coin operated contrivances probation until 1972. William Roy Lawson 17 breaking into coin operated contrivances one year in county jail. Jack A. Beets Jr 22 forgery 2-3 years in state prison.
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Pima County
Archie Neville Downs
Sparkman Blvd
Larry Lee Lawson
Oregon Drive
William Roy Lawson
Jack A. Beets Jr
Meters and Wickets Question Metric Change
A London Times letter from W M Newte argues metric conversion would require a cricket pitch of 20 116 772 meters, highlighting a humorous mismatch. He notes the pitch is the distance between wickets and says this isn’t cricket.
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London
UPI
London Times
Britain
W. M. Newte
Ripley
Judgment Set for Titan Missile Case Partners
A U.S. District Court judge ordered a 1,037,500 judgment in favor of Union Tank Car Co. against Dragor Shipping Corp. Dragor, a former Ward Industries unit, failed to pay by Sept. 30, 1964 on a promissory note tied to Titan construction work at Tucson area sites and Vandenberg AFB. Dragor also pursues a 83 million counterclaim alleging mishandled government claims.
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U.S. District Court
James A. Walsh
California
Union Tank Car Co
New Jersey
Dragor Shipping Corp
Ward Industries Corp
Delaware
Walsh
Union Tank Car
Harold Warnock
Dragor
Titan
Tucson
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Lompoc
Calif
Six hurt when auto flips on Sells Highway southwest of Tucson
A crash on the Sells Highway 37 miles southwest of Tucson left six people injured after their car veered off the road and flipped end over end. Driver Frank Manuel, 16, of Sells, is in critical condition with possible skull spine and pelvis fractures. Passengers Frank Rios 19 Andrew Lopez 4 Antonio Francisco 64 all of Sells were treated for injuries. one man released after minor injuries.
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Sells
Tucson
Frank Manuel
Sells Hospital
Frank Rios
Andrew Lopez
Antonio Francisco
Davis Franteco
Morris Francisco
Arizona Highway
Air Force planes cleaned with apricot pits waxed turbojets
At Travis Air Force Base the 5th Bomb Wing runs 57 turbojet engines at high power to scrub carbon from compressor and turbine blades. Apricot pits and walnut shells are sucked into the intake to clean the engines en route to the exhaust.
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Sth
Travis Afb
Calif
Trays Air Force Base
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