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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1976
Page
2
Wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent in July with food costs down 1 percent, the Labor Department said. Industrial commodities jumped 0.7 percent the biggest gain since November, while consumer prices rose 5.9 percent from a year earlier.
Two Scottsdale men with felony records, William D Ambrosio and Frank Mossato, are accused by an assistant attorney general of hidden ownership in the La Versailles Restaurant liquor license. The Arizona Liquor Department hold hearing questions whether Resco Corp owns the license and probes related corporate control.
Ten city streets will receive a slurry seal resurfacing coating Friday, causing partial closures. Streets include Vista Drive from 86th Street to the Pima Road access road, 81st Place and Crestwood Way, 82nd Place, Sage Drive, 83rd Place, and Valley View to the Pima Road access.
A Behavior Research Center survey of 500 unregistered residents in Phoenix and Tucson shows postcard registration would have little impact on registering or voting. Most nonregistrants cite apathy or disinterest, with 52 percent preferring Democrats and 33 percent leaning Republican.
Arizona Progress report from Valley National Bank notes 12 month employment rise of 4.1 percent with 738,400 nonfarm and wage jobs in June the second highest mid year total. Government up 7.9 percent service industry 5.5 percent retail 3.3 percent manufacturing 3.1 percent while mining fell 3.3 percent.
Scottsdale Planning Commission approves a zoning change to permit a crematorium within a cemetery proposed by former council member Paul Messinger owner of Messinger Mortuary and Paradise Memorial Gardens. Commission also backs a pizza restaurant use with beer at 3213 N Hayden Rd in an existing building.
Scottsdale real estate salesman Dan Bartos refused to be fingerprinted at a State Real Estate Department hearing on whether he falsified his license by omitting a 1946 robbery conviction. He questioned record authenticity while authorities linked his prints to multiple licenses and birth records. He faces an August 25 rebuttal date and September Scottsdale court dates on three local charges.
ConRail announces a 34.2 million dollar loss for the first quarter as government backed freight operator, formed from six bankrupt lines, reports 835.8 million in operating revenues and a 1.38 dollar loss per share on 25 million shares. Chairman Edward Jordan called results better than anticipated. The carrier consolidates Pens Central, Reading, Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Lehigh and Hudson River and Central of New Jersey lines.
An Associated Press roundup from Phoenix reports Marston's Inc contracted for more than six hundred thousand dollars worth of portable school buildings across eight Maricopa County districts before 1972 without a state contractor license. The State Registrar of Contractors is reviewing the firm’s involvement in several school projects.
The Arizona Court of Appeals upholds the right to a jury trial in minor marijuana offenses. The State Supreme Court may be asked to review the ruling.
Phoenix report states 65 year old James Gaylord Nelson a former executive of defunct Arizona land firms died of natural causes. An autopsy was ordered with Gerald Ackland discovering Nelson in pajamas at a northeast Phoenix apartment. Nelson known as undertaker for land promotion schemes linked to Ned Warren Sr. and FBI investigations for impersonating Senator Gaylord Nelson.
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