Arizona House OKs five member boards of supervisors
The Arizona House passed a bill to expand county boards from three to five members, sending it to the Senate. The vote was 31 to 29 with 27 Democrats opposed. Pima and Maricopa would add two at large seats this fall. smaller counties may expand later after elections.
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Phoenix
House
Senate
County Boards of Supervisors
Sam McConnell
Williams
Gliyds Gardner
Prescott
Jorged
Pima
Maricopa
Tony Carrillo
D-Pima
Scott Alexander
R-Pima
Cochise
Alexander
Ed Sawyer
D-Cochise
Cochise County
James Elliott
Etta Mae Hutcheson
Pima County
Arizona
Ellsworth
House Seeks Special Session Over Industrial Commission
Phoenix legislators pressed Senate to call a special session to revamp the State Industrial Commission. House leaders argued time is too short for the 112 page bill, while Senate President Humphrey warned no bill means no action this year. The split kept major measures advancing, including a $5.9 million university capital outlay bill.
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Phoenix
House
Senate
State Industrial Commission
Rep
D. Delos Ellsworth
Maricopa
Marshall Humphrey
Ellsworth
Sen
Chris Johnson
R-Maricopa
Humphrey
Tucson Students Win Prizes In Arizona Traffic Poster Contest
Arizona Automobile Association announced eight of 18 prizes go to Tucson students from 42 schools statewide. The entries totaled 476 and will go to Washington DC for national judging with $7,000 in US Savings Bonds awarded. Tucson winners include Louis DiDinato, Donald De Valk, and Stephen Peterson among others from St. Ambrose, Sacred Heart, San Xavier, and more.
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Bhoenix
Arizona Automobile Association
Tucson
Louis DioDinato
St. Ambrose
Donald de Valk
Sacred Heart
Richard Felix
Ernest Basurto
Ernie Reyes
San Xavier
Steven Peterson
H.s
Patty Shettletoe
Clare Ferry
Jawbone fragment from Antarctica confirms early vertebrates
A 2 percent inch long jawbone fragment found in an ancient stream bed near the South Pole provides the first vertebrate evidence of life in Antarctica. NSF notes it supports Gondwanaland ties with India, Africa, Australia and South America. Dr. Edwin Colbert assigns it to Labyrinthodotia amphibians that lived 350 to 200 million years ago.
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Washington
Antarctica
India
National Science Foundation
Africa
Australia
South America
Gondwanaland
South Pole
NSA
Edwin H. Colbert
The
American Museum of Natural History
Only 7 of 160 Survive Luhonga Landslide
Officials in Congo report seven survivors from the village of Luhonga after a Friday landslide caused by heavy rains wiped out 160 inhabitants 10 miles south of Bikavu.
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Kinshasa
Congo
UPI
Luhonga
Bikavu
Barry Goldwater to Speak at ASU Tomorrow
Former senator Barry Goldwater will address the Air Force ROTC corps at Arizona State University in Tempe tomorrow. The event marks Goldwater’s latest political appearance and highlights the university’s ROTC involvement.
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TEMPE
UPI
Barry Goldwater
Arizona State University
UA Wins $125000 NASA Grant For Photoelectric Research
The University of Arizona receives a $125,000 NASA research grant for photographic and photoelectric signal detection studies led by Dr. W. G. Tifft. Announcement credited to Senators Fannin and Hayden and Representative Udall.
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University of Arizona
The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
W. G. Tifft
Paul Fannin
Carl Hayden
Morris K. Udall
Late Storm Paralyzes Wide Area
A major winter storm from the southern Rockies spread northeast, bringing 3 to 16 inch snow accumulations and forcing school closures and business shutdowns from Oklahoma to New England. National Guardsmen aided stranded motorists while Oklahoma City reports 1500 to 3000 autos marooned and up to eight foot drifts.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Alabama
Great Lakes
New England
Rockies
Oklahoma
Ozarks
Oklahoma City
National
U. S. Air Force
Arkansas
Missouri
University of Arkansas
Midwest
Atlantic
Chicago
O'Hare
St. Louis
Lambert Field
Daughter of Pioneer Tucson Family Dies
Mrs. Hilda Jacobs Drake, daughter of prominent Tucson banker and merchant Baron Jacobs, died in Washington, D.C. in her early nineties. She married Brig. Gen. Charles Drake, later stationed at Ft. Lowell before a transfer to the Philippines. Survived by daughter Miss Barrine Drake of Washington and grand-niece Mrs. John H. Carroll of Tucson.
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Hilda Jacobs Drake
Tucson
Barron Jacobs
Washington, D.C
Barrine Drake
Washington, D. C
John H. Carroll
Gorton Rules Out New Troop Deployment to Vietnam
Australian Prime Minister John Gorton reaffirmed in Parliament his stance against sending additional troops to Vietnam, preserving a campaign pledge not to escalate involvement. A separate biographical note mentions a local banker family linked to Tucson and a historic mansion later demolished, with burial planned at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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Canberra
API
John Gorton
Vietnam
Lionel
Pima County Bank
First National Bank of
Tucson
Congress Street
Stone Avenue
Jacobs
W. Alameda and
Meyer Streets
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Memorial services for Lady Suffolk in San Francisco area
Lady Suffolk 88 died March 5 of a heart attack while flying from San Francisco to her ranch near Oracle. Services will be 3 p.m. Friday at St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church with Rev. George Ferguson officiating. She leaves two sons Cecil J A Howard Beverly Hills and the Hon Greville Howard London and three London grandsons.
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Lady Suffolk
San Francisco
Oracle
George Ferguson
St. Philip’s In the Hills Episcopal Church
Margaret Lester
Chicago
Suffolk
Henry Molyneaux Paget Howard
Cecil J. A. Howard
Beverly Hills
Greville Howard
London
Casa del Oro
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Industrial Commission
Barry Asu
NASA
Vea Roofing & CO. Ey Bm Pted
Manhattan Beach
Calif
Arthur Glen Jones
San Quentin Prison
Jones
United Press International
Wolfschmidt
Victor Fischel & Co, Inc
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Lady Suffolk Services
Andrea
Scott
SONY
Broadway
Willard
Sears
Serta
Lana
Sears, Rolbuck and CO
E. Broadway
Turson
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