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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1949
Page
7
A Scottsdale resident urges against incorporation, arguing current police protection suffices and that added jail and city staff would raise costs. The writer notes 416 water services and 375 gas connections in the area, favors remaining a independent village, and postponing taxation until population grows to 5,000. Merle D Brown Smith.
Dog owners who missed registration can obtain rabies vaccination and licensing from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday in Al Frederick's area. About 300 dogs were licensed on the first day. a tag shortage cut services early. Dr. Marion Smith will again vaccinate. license fees are 1 dollar for males and 2 dollars for females.
A group of elders sits in a circle beneath a tree discussing topics of the day. One man puffs on a cigarette as the scene evokes a quiet, reflective mood of past days. Continued on Page Two.
Scottsdale High hosts Mother and Dad Night on Thursday April 28 inviting parents to meet teachers and observe a compressed school day. The event runs 8 p.m. with ten minute class visits, a short assembly, and remarks by principal W. W. Dick. Scottsdale PTA serves refreshments.
The Scottsdale incorporation debate centers on tax fears. Proponents say the goal is better value for existing taxes. Revised figures show state refunds on sales, gasoline and auto lieu taxes totaling about $23,000, offset by fixed yearly expenses for town marshal and engineer at $3,500, town clerk at $1,500, and other costs totaling $5,000, leaving $14,000 for further needs.
Sipe-Peterson Post No. 44, American Legion, approved moving meetings from the second and fourth Thursday to the first and third Tuesday of each month. A recess to the first Thursday in May was also approved. Plans were discussed to send one or two local boys to Boys State at Arizona State College in Flagstaff this summer, with no definite action.
A schedule lists an eighth grade play at the high school auditorium this evening at 8 00 pm. On Friday April 22 and Monday April 25 there are 730 pm meetings for Boys Club and Kiwanis at local venues. April 28 features a Calapco Natural Gas celebration and Mothers and Dads Night at the high school plus Tony Prince's Circus sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 1101 at the grammar school.
A celebration in downtown Scottsdale on Thursday night April 28 marks Central Arizona Light and Power bringing natural gas to the area. The program starts at 7 45 with talks by chamber president Cliff Carpenter and Calapco president Henry Sargent, plus company officials and gifts, refreshments, and a prize drawing including $25 gas and electric merchandise orders.
Under the local chamber of commerce sponsorship Rural Fire Protection will hold a 45 minute fire fighting demonstration Saturday at First street and Brown avenue. The event will show extinguishing an oil pit fire a gasoline soaked shack and rubber automobile tires. The oil pit fire was put out in about 150 seconds with 25 gallons of water and the shack 7% by 7% feet in 45 seconds with about 50 gallons.
Isabel Woolf Wright wife of Indiana University professor emeritus Joseph A Wright died Friday after a long illness at Tempe Clinic hospital in Arizona Her ashes will be placed in her mother's grave in Zanesville Ohio next week Wrights moved to Arizona in 1947 to be near their daughter Mrs E Britt Myrick and family She was born in 1906 in Zanesville Ohio and trained as a missionary nurse later teaching then working at Helen Purcell Home for Aged Women and Bethesda Hospital She married Wright on September 10 1945 in Kalamazoo Michigan Survived by her husband sister Clara Cohagan Michigan brother John Michigan and several nieces and nephews
The Scotts dale Grammar School eighth grade stages the play Twixteen in Scottsdale High School auditorium tonight and Friday. First cast features Landon Nichols, Mary Messinger, Alice Walters, Delores Lee, Imogene Francis, and James Pilcher with a Thursday preview for Gram mar school students and a Friday public showing. Second cast includes Landon Nichols replacements Shelby Copeland and Joan Paulus among others for afternoon and evening performances.
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