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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1960
Page
1
Scottsdale High's baseball team travels to Prescott Friday for a conference game. Beavers boast a 6 win 0 loss log. Schupach Riggs and Reynolds vie for pitching duties. Kleinmann and Wade lead Scottsdale hitters over .400.
Three incumbent town council members William Schrader John Marron and Mrs Moya Kelley and Moto rola engineer John Knudsen were elected in a light turnout. Incumbents John Pickrell and Austin Smith failed to reach a majority and will face Ted Shumway and Francis O Keefe in the May 24 general election. Mayor Mort Kimsey won the largest vote unopposed.
Funeral services were held for Hubert Fant and L. C. Massey two Scottsdale residents who drowned on a Gulf of California fishing trip last week. Fant’s service was at A. L. Moore chapel with interment in Scottsdale cemetery, Massey’s at Mercer Mortuary chapel with interment at Memory Lawn Memorial Park. Their guide, Robert Plath, was with them. bodies recovered after a two day search prompted by Mrs. Fant’s discovery of their absence. The Massey family reported no information on the accident cause. Fant, a real estate operator, leaves a wife, son, and relatives in Scottsdale. Massey, a carpenter, leaves a wife and several children and siblings.
Scottsdale zoning commission approved changing property between Second Street and Indian School Road from Residence A to Commercial A. About 50 residents attended. Al Lindsay opposed. Also approved a car wash use permit at Indian School and George, shopping center plans along South Scottsdale Road, and plats for Country Club Plaza and Oasis Plaza. Hearings set for May 10.
County and Farm Bureau leaders surveyed road needs last week proposing Hayden road extension from Indian School to Indian Bend and a bridge across Arizona Canal at Granite Reef road. They reiterate prior recommendations and urge seven Mesa area extensions including Power House road and Greenfield corridor to improve local access and traffic flow.
Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce issued an April bulletin noting higher town sales tax, postal receipts, and bank debits for the first quarter of 1980 compared with 1959. Tax receipts rose 50.8 percent, postal receipts 37.5 percent, and bank deposits 37.5 percent. population and enrollment also increased, while meter installations and news subscriptions climbed.
Arizona narcotics agents arrest Manuel Matus 19 of Scottsdale for illegal sale of marijuana after an undercover purchase and seizure of two cans. Matus, sole support of his mother and siblings, was booked in Tempe jail on suspicion of peddling narcotics. Ralph Anderson reported the undercover buy of eight marijuana cigarets a week earlier.
SHS dominated Arcadia with a sweeping 10514-7194 win in a dual track meet. Rex Short led Beavers with a broad jump and first place while Don Creek Jim McBurney and Bud Jesman scored high in sprints and distance events. Arcadia collected silvers and thirds in several races.
Ernie Johnson, 51, an employee of Klass Painting, sustained leg, arm and head injuries after a tumble from the roof of the Raymond Rubicam home at 6734 Jackrabbit Road Wednesday morning. Rural Fire Department provided aid and he was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital by Messinger Ambulance.
Scottsdale fire department battled a grass fire Wednesday afternoon near the Young Construction office on Indian School road west of Scottsdale road. No damage to adjacent structures was reported.
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