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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1969
Page
6
In Los Angeles the Sirhan Sirhan murder trial for Senator Robert Kennedy’s death rests with both sides having closed. Prosecution will not seek the death penalty and jurors could hear closing arguments later today before a Friday verdict.
At tonight's planning commission meeting in Scottsdale residents plan a protest at 8 p.m. as two high rise hotel proposals face approval. Plans include Camelback Tower Hotel with 136 rooms on a four acre site at 77th and Camelback and an eight story hotel with 60 rooms downtown.
Officials from Hanny's report heavy damage from a separate Saturday blaze and have not decided whether to reopen the resort shop at 25 W. Main. Progress learns the two surviving stores will return to their former locations while a third will not reopen.
Scottsdale's street name committee will meet at 7 tonight to consider a watered down recommendation to the city council. The panel may limit changes to downtown Scottsdale Rd and Miller Rd while retaining the metropolitan numbering system elsewhere. The council will likely act after an April 15 hearing.
Construction on the Scottsdale Baptist Hospital adds four stories to the existing two at a $1,416,000 price tag. Kitchell Contractors, Inc. won the bid for the 300 day project to raise capacity from 136 to 250 patients. The wing will house pediatric and surgical patients as work continues with reduced noise.
Thomas Farmer, a private first class in Headquarters Company, 11th Combat Aviation Battalion, Vietnam, ordered a daily Progress subscription to his doorstep this week. He warned the paperboy to watch for trip flares and booby traps.
A Milwaukee woman, Alta E. Johnson, reported jewelry worth 3700 stolen from her sister's hotel room at the Executive House on Scottsdale Road between 8 and 11 p.m. The theft showed no door pry marks and involved three rings a diamond and a platinum watch.
City manager Bill Donaldson said the council will receive recommendations on how to handle advertising bus benches after a year of debate. Dan Molina, owner of Maharani store, criticized benches that blocked his landscaping views and stated he might fund replacement benches. Heath Sign Co. owns the current benches under a six year contract that expired last December. The city is studying costs to buy or build new benches with a report due at the next meeting.
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