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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1973
Page
1
Progress staff Pat and Jerry McElfresh join a city wide meatless boycott to lower prices. The family swaps beef for fish chicken eggs and cheese preparing seven dinners and noting a $5 to $6 cheaper grocery total. On Sunday they serve Coq au Vin with sides and receive compliments.
Jerry McElfresh reflects on a meatless lifestyle, noting amusement and modest hardship. He admits liking chicken and recounts a fishing trip breakfast with eggs, plus meals of canned corned beef, fried chicken, and Coq au Vin at home.
Salt River Project management and Local 266 of the IBEW head into a fifth bargaining session with no agreement. The union seeks a 10 percent across the board raise while management holds a 54 percent offer, costing about 900 000 dollars for 1973 74. The union rejected a 5 percent compromise.
A detailed reader opinion survey will be conducted across the Progress circulation area starting Tuesday. Arizona State University students in Prof. Richard Nagasawa’s class will distribute, collect, and tabulate questionnaires and prepare a computerized report on reader preferences for Progress coverage of local to world news and features.
Evelyn Lois Hood 69 a Norwalk California native died Saturday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital. Services will be 11 am Tuesday at A L Moore and Sons Mortuary with entombment in Greenwood Memorial Mausoleum. She lived at 4800 North 68th Street and was a homemaker active in First Christian Church Scottsdale Order of the Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile. Survivors include husband Wilbur L a daughter Marilyn Goffiner of Phoenix a son Stewart two brothers two sisters and five grandchildren. Memorial gifts may go to the Maricopa County Heart Association.
A 17 year old motorcyclist was injured on Indian School Road near 64th Street after a collision with a car driven by William Craig of Lubbock Texas. Craig was cited for failing to yield after stopping at a stop sign. A second incident left 22 year old Neal Seiss in satisfactory condition after a dump truck struck him at a construction site in McCormick Ranch. A 23 year old, Franklin Bateman Jr., was treated after a ten car crash on Scottsdale Road near Jackrabbit Road. No citations issued for the Camelback Road crosswalk injury involving 13 year old Mitchell Miller and 15 year old Susan Evans.
Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall told Prescott College students that the Mineral Strip dispute on the San Carlos Apache Reservation shows the Bureau of Indian Affairs has not worked. He endorsed Congress reimbursement for ranchers forced from the strip area and noted his 1969 executive order that returned the strip to the Indians.
William Messick 32 disappeared when his flat bed went into the Salt River at 40th Street. His companion David Hays 18 escaped by jumping to safety. Messick later told police he used a spare tire to float about a half mile to shore and spent the night in an abandoned car before reaching a phone.
A man and two women escaped uninjured after their canoe capsized on the Salt River near Tempe Bridge. Carol Schwarz 21 Tempe clung to the canoe and was rescued by helicopter. Robert Sarro 28 and Cindy Dawson 21 Tempe swam to a steel tower and were saved by passersby Paul Evans and Bob Martin using a rubber raft.
Sherwood B. Stevens 77 a retired telegrapher died at Memorial Hospital. A Michigan native who moved to the Valley from Northville six years ago he was WWI veteran. Survivors include wife Emma one son Donald Northville Mich daughter Mrs Dorothy Miller Scottsdale three sisters three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services and burial will be in Northville Hangen Mortuary of Phoenix announced.
A 14 year old Scottsdale boy, Carl Edward Petersen, was injured Friday afternoon when he received an electrical shock while playing near a Salt River Project transformer. He was treated at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital for burns on his right hand and foot after being near a 13.8 kilowatt box southeast of Granite Reef Road and McDowell Road. The box was partially open and marked with high voltage warnings.
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