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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1977
Page
3
A Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. survey estimates Phoenix as the 15th largest city in the nation with a 3.1 percent population rise in the past year. March housing starts jumped 57 percent, amid forecasts of a regional boom and questions about jobs water and schools.
Harriet Van Horne rails against modern anxieties from aging pets to political hazards and burglaries. She blasts rock music for destroying nerves, citing hearing damage and social decay while urging limits on decibel levels in public spaces.
The Milwaukee Journal notes Congress allocated 15 million dollars to restart SST research amid past rejection as wasteful and environmental concerns. It cites the Concorde example as costly and polluting, arguing the timing for a supersonic transport remains uncertain.
Washington reports intense 11th hour moves by state politicians to loosen natural gas rules were doomed by a decree to solve the energy shortage through government regulation. Carter officials note sacrifice of ideology and the move away from deregulation as the defining policy.
A special election on May 10 will consider a 2 per cent hotel lodging tax. The council endorses directing half of the revenue to tourist promotion to lure visitors who become residents. The writer argues Scottsdale’s growth is strong without a new tax and urges a NO vote.
In a satirical tale set during President Carter's energy crisis rhetoric, Horatio Alger of the Dune Buggy Co. feigns wartime sacrifice by curtailing production and cutting energy use. A comic turn ends with Alger discovering oil after burying a geologist, declaring further devotion to country.
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