Scottsdale Daily Progress (Newspaper) - August 10, 1973, Scottsdale, Arizona Nixon plans bugging talk today in the news By United Press International Spy unit formed WASHINGTON - Deputy White House news aide Gerald Warren said today plan for gathering embarrassing information on prominent Democrats last year was in That's as close as Warren would come to confirming a Washington Post report that seven government agencies directed by former White House personnel operated the plan last Warren says the plan has been Stocks tumble 9.11 points NEW YORK - Prices fell sharply on the New York Stock Exchange in sluggish trading today with investors on the sidelines concerned over the newest round of rises in prime lending At the closing the Dow Jones Industrial average had tumbled 9.11 to 892.38. Standard & 500 stock index had dropped 0.76 to 104.85. Declines far outnumbered 953 to 350, among 1,657 issues 2 pickets shot Calif. - Two United Farm Workers pickets were shot and seriously wounded today after gunfire broke out at a vineyard near Tulare County sheriff's deputies said a group of pickets reportedly entered a field and began overturning grape boxes when 12 to 15 shots rang pickets Paul Salvado and Marcelino both in their early 20s, were felled by the FHA mortgage rate raised WASHINGTON - FHA mortgage loans will continue to be but they will cost President Nixon signed legislation today extending the loan program until Oct. 1. And the FHA raised the interest rates from seven to 7.75 per cent. Gasoline freeze extended WASHINGTON - The Cost of Living Council today extended the price freeze on gasoline and petroleum products until Aug. 19, but said service stations victimized in price wars would get a break once the freeze is For the rest of the except the price freeze expires Merchants and wholesalers will be able to boost selling prices in line with regulations under the administration's Phase 4 stabilization Controller blamed in crash WASHINGTON - The failure of an air traffic controller to use one key word in his radioed instructions to a flight crew caused the collision last December of two jetliners at Chicago which killed 10 safety investigators said A North Central jet attempting a takeoff from a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Dec. 20, 1972, collided with a Delta Air Lines jet taxiing across the 4th Mars probe launched MOSCOW - The Soviet Union said today it has launched a fourth spacecraft toward setting the stage for what Western experts predict may be a dual landing on the red planet next 105 Mostly sunny High near 105. Low tonight near 80. Partly cloudy Saturday with a slight chance of late afternoon or evening Not quite as warm Speech set for midweek WASHINGTON Nixon will make a speech the middle of next week on the White House said Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren told reporters that the speech would be delivered from the White but that the day and time had not yet been Other White House officials have said Nixon would deliver a half-hour speech on nationwide television and setting forth his first public response to Watergate allegations since Senate hearings were recessed Tuesday until Sept. 10. Warren said Nixon also would be holding a news but provided no date for the President's first encounter with reporters since March 15. A Nixon Patrick said a few days ago that the President's response to allegations principally by former White House Counsel John W. Dean that Nixon was aware of the Watergate cover-up would probably take the form of a a and news Announcement of Nixon's following a 4,000-word statement May 22, came one day after the Watergate Committee filed suit against Nixon seeking to force him to release tapes of his White House conversations with Dean and Nixon is considering an invitation to speak at the Veterans of Foreign convention in New Orleans Aug. 20, Warren said It was learned that it is fairly certain that Nixon will address the VFW while on his way to San Calif. As for the new statement on on which Nixon has been working at Camp Warren expect the President will make the speech the middle of next I cannot give you any As to the speech he is working on I can't get into specifics of what it will He will also be holding press but I can't say Joining the fight launched Tuesday by special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald the Senate committee asked the U. S. District Court to order Nixon to surrender five tape recordings plus documents concerning the activities of 25 current or former Scottsdale vi Progress YOUR AWARD WINNING HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER Vol. No. 138 AUGUST 10, 1973 40c Per Week - 10c WORKMEN have begun digging holes to house pylons for the bridge over the Salt River at Hayden Road The bridge - which is scheduled for completion by next April - will open a second direct Progress photo by Paul Brown Scottsdale arterial to handle traffic when the river is The work is being completed on a Photo looks toward the Hayden slowly becoming major link It will be at least two years before Hayden Road will be completed as a arterial for For the past several years city officials have been putting the road together a link at a time in order to extend it from south of Tempe to the northern limits of Most important linkage was the across Villa Monterey Golf Course where work now is This week the council called for bids on extending the road northward from Chaparral Road to McDonald Drive at an estimated cost of At the same time the council approved the hiring of the firm of Brooks and Kelly to engineer the extension of Hayden from Shea Boulevard north to Thunderbird Another link in the road will be provided by Kaiser Aetna north of Indian Bend This work is expected to be completed within a In about two years a bridge will be built over the Arizona Canal or Maricopa County now is building a bridge over the Salt River to insure that the road remains open during the most serious Valley transit study urged Vice Mayor Billie Gentry said today she favors forming a committee that would develop a comprehensive mass transit plan for Scottsdale and its neighboring She said that the committee should be formed with its main thrust aimed toward preventing the Valley from suffering similar transportation and pollution problems now faced by cities such as Los She said that Scottsdale officials might take the lead because of the potential good this community would realize if such a system became a She said she is happy that Scottsdale is now engaged in the largest streets improvement plan in its For she McDowell Road from 64th Street to 70th Street soon will be widened to six lanes to help move east-west traffic across Scottsdale from Phoenix to Mesa and Mrs. Gentry said that Scottsdale would benefit greatly from the mass transit study because the community is a narrow city with most of its transportation problems concentrated in the north-south movement of people start talking about mass transportation they always think about rubber-tired and even she is a good chance a comprehensive study would bring out other means of solving this Mrs. Gentry recently returned from Europe where she said most of the cities she visited have gone far in solving these She said that most of the European cities subsidized systems and the populace of each of these cities takes full advantage of the don't think it is true that people would not use such a system were established she would ride on such systems if they were developed in the right She said that in officials have developed a transportation system that almost rode on those buses and they were always she you have to realize these buses appeared at bus stops at three-minute She said that a comprehensive educational system should be discussed by the proposed committee in order to educate citizens of the advantages of riding the mass transportation they can do it in the cities in Europe why can't we do it she least we should make a good Clinic gets okay of modified plan The city's Development Review Board Thursday approved a revised plan for a million medical but the architects for the project still are hopeful that they will be able to proceed with their original The proposed for a site between Osborn Road and Monterey Way east of Scottsdale would be 49 feet including a 13-foot screen for air conditioning equipment on the City ordinances set a 36-foot limit on building The city after discussing whether the limit on building height includes referred the case to the The Tempe architectural firm of Michael and Kemper Goodwin solved part of the problem by coming up with a new design which clearly separates the top of the building walls from the Jim Roberts of the city planning staff said Theo acting building feels the screen is not part of the building and should not be included in determining the building The board approved the alternative proposal but recommended that the architects return to the Board of Adjustments to seek a variance if they wish to pursue the original The Development Review Board also asked the city Planning and Zoning Commission to review the ordinance which defines according to Jeremy one of the architects for the Jones said he hopes construction can begin in mid-October and that going to try to pursue our original Under the original there was no clear cut line where the building wall ended and the screening The triangular-shaped four-story building tapers to a point at the At the the building would cover 21,000 square It would offer 93,000 square feet of floor Chase was leisurely Two 14-year-old Coronado High School freshmen were apprehended Thursday afternoon and referred to juvenile authorities for an electric The boy and a stopped by police as they were riding in the 6900 block of east Palm Police said the golfcart was stolen Wednesday from an apartment complex at 1923 N. 70th St. No high speed dhase was police 20% lunch price hike asked for high schools New town slope law to lace court fight PARADISE VALLEY - The Town council Thursday night adopted controversial package of mountainside building but the battle which has been waged in public hearings in the town hall may shift to the Michael J. who represents six mountainside property owners in the said he consider seeking an and other legal to halt enforcement of the Donohoe has been a vocal critic of the regulations and has voiced his objections at meetings of the council and the planning and zoning He was joined Thursday night in his objections by Jeff who represents Dr. George The which were adopted require that parcels be divided to when least one building site with a building site slope of less than 10 per The regulations also state that shall be given to placement of the residence on the site to minimize cut and Council members agreed with Town Manager Oscar putt that this section offers considerable to Donohoe objected most strongly to the regulation which states that no part of any building shall exceed 24 feet in height and that the enure building shall not exceed 40 feet in height measured from the lowest finished Mayor Robert Tribken said this section is designed to homes which would conform to the Donohoe said this conflicts with the 3Woot height limit for buildings as set down in the town Tribken said the new regulations would allow a home to up the He said the new regulations are lenient in one respect and more stringent in Donohoe also objected to the foot height limit for retaining Donohue called the new regulations and possibly confiscatory in Roth Smith and Donohoe objected to the deletion of an which was included in the original This clause would permit town authorities to modify the regulations in unusual Council members pointed out that builders may take special cases to the Town Board of Adjustments and attempt to gain a variance in the The Scottsdale School Board will decide Tuesday whether to approve a 20 per cent increase in high school lunch prices in the The board will meet at the Education 3811 N. 44th at 8 p.m. The hike in lunch prices was first discussed last April but the school board decided to defer a decision until the end of summer when the status of costs could be determined closer to the opening of The board decided at the time to mail letters to parents this informing them of the likelihood of a The price hike should up income by a day - to a break-even director of management told the board in a report the advent of Phase 4, the need for price increases is greater today than it was four months Pedersen's report He bad anticipated rises in costs of fresh fruits and vegetables following price lifts last The price of beef is expected to as when President Nixon lifts the freeze Sept. 12. Pedersen reported last April that the high school lunch program had lost more than between January and He attributed the jump not only to economic but to modified open campuses which allow many students to eat lunch off and to hour-long lunch periods which makes leaving campus more The problem has been further compounded lately by food The problem is availability of supplies at any Pedersen noted last He said suppliers are reluctant to sign contracts because they fear costs will jump before the contract runs slimming Under the 20 per cent a lunch of green roll and fruit and milk would jump from 54 to 66 A lunch of ham french salad and milk will go from 62 to 75 cents and a lunch of pie and milk will jump from 37 to 45 Some individual price increases will include reuben sandwich from 75 to 80 vegetables from 10 to 12 french fries from 10 to 15 and hot tuna and chicken salad sandwiches will jump from 25 to 30 Downtown darkened A power failure in a large section of Scottsdale was caused today when Mountain Bell Telephone Co. employes severed a 12,000-volt feeder line while working west of 70th Street on Osborn Power gras out from 10:37 a.m. until 11:06 a.m. in most of the area bounded by 76th 70th Osborn and Thomas Arizona Public Service spokesmen said the break is being repaired but that the service in the area was replaced by rerouted power from sources other than the broken
