Tucson Homes Rally Against Conoco Copper Mining
About 250 residents from Tucson Estates and nearby areas gathered to oppose Conoco’s copper exploration on 5.5 square miles of desert and private land three miles south of Old Tucson. They vow picketing, boycotts, sitdowns, and a letter campaign to deter the company under the 1872 mining law, amid concerns over dust, fumes, and property damage.
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Tucson Area
Tucson Estates
Tucson
Continental Oil Co
Oil, Mining, Chemival and Plastics Company
Conoco
Old Tucsott
Canovo
Jan Wili
Millstone Manor
Sial
John Dore
Conoca
Wilt
Dore
Mall
Dorb
Chain
Vornon
Gas conservation leaders announced cooperation
H Meissner, personnel director, and Roberta Mc Cool and Mary Todd, public work secretaries, joined Chad Cowley, finance director, in a briefing on gas conservation efforts.
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H. Meissner
Roberta McCool
Mary Todd
Chad Cowley
Phoenix elementary district okays budget override
Voters in the Phoenix district approved a budget override exceeding the 6 percent limit for the third year in a row. The $995,000 addition will fund 34 teachers lowered class sizes to 28, plus five more teachers, a speech therapist, and a half-time psychologist for special education. Tax rate rises by 23 to 25 cents per $100 assessed value.
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Phoenix
Volars
Phoenixlementary
Phoenix Mayor John Driggs Named to Advisory Commission
President Nixon appoints Mayor John Driggs of Phoenix to a two year advisory commission on federal relations. The bipartisan panel monitors government operations and recommends improvements.
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Phoenix
Nixon
John Driggs
Lemon Wie
Ex-attorney for Winslow loses appeal
Robert Jenkins former Winslow city attorney has lost a bid to redact seven years of his prison sentence for smuggling marijuana. The district court denied the motion stating no grounds for reduction and noted the terms run consecutively with a five year base for conspiracy to import marijuana. Jenkins jailed since 196? after a Supreme Court denial of his appeal, was arrested at the Winslow airport August 26 1971 by federal agents observing him and others with marijuana in a truck. Co defendant Johnny Ray McDaniel Winslow pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import marijuana and received probation for five years and a $3500 fine.
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Phou’nix
UPL
Robert ‘J. Jenkins
Winslow
DS. District Court
Wahl A.muecke
Jenkins
U.S. Supreme Court
Johnny Ray McDaniel
McDaniel
Sonoita residents protest rezoning in Santa Cruz County
More than 40 Sonoita residents packed a small courtroom to oppose a proposed denser zoning for two Sonoita Valley subdivisions. Only three of eight planning commissioners were present, delaying action. The protesters seek one house per acre in Sonoita Hills and Sonoita Estates instead of current one per five acres, while some commissioners indicated opposition and a June 14 review date was set.
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Nogales
Sonoita
Santa Cruz County
Xezoning
Sioners
Enrique Linero
Ray Steel
Patagonia
Josephine Baily
Trumacacori
P. “Rudolph” Gaines
Reti
Santa Cruz’ County
Gaines
Commission
Scotland
Sonoita-Patagonia
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