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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1963
Page
5
A reader asks if a merger with par values differing from the original stock creates a tax loss. The answer: no loss exists. cost basis transfers to the new shares. If the new shares sell for more, a gain results. Additional notes cover Wood Newspaper Machinery stock and investment advisory services.
Plans for the Racquet Club at 5700 E. McDonald Drive are in doubt after a Superior Court suit by Arizona Savings and Loan Association receivership to force sale. The suit accuses buyers Braiker and Wachter of failing to pay 289144 due August 1, while a second down payment of 100000 was made and a 2500 monthly schedule agreed. Louis Levine is named with a 100000 down payment and a second mortgage. Club manager Nick Quarty offered no comment on the future while Frank Thomas seeks a use permit for resort units and Braiker sought a 200 room hotel on Camelback Mountain but was rejected by the town planning commission.
Miss Ruth Goodman named assistant to the director of food services in Scottsdale District to train 185 employees across 19 schools. The 25 cent daily lunch serves 15 000 students and aims for $1.1 million in yearly sales. Goodman, Cornell and University of Chicago graduate, brings 20 years in the field and will standardize menus, cut waste, and supervise equipment use as she builds efficiency across district kitchens. She has taught at Cincinnati and Minnesota institutions and served in the Red Cross during World War II era.
Milton L. Blane is named the Southwest Area Climatologist for the Office of Climatology, U S Weather Bureau. He will office at Arizona State University in Tempe and supervise state climatologists in six states. The role shifts duties from the southeastern region and focuses on arid zone climatology amid ASU growth.
World War I hero Sgt. Alvin C. York, admitted after a fever, was taken off the serious list at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville Tennessee Sunday night. Officials could not determine the fever's cause and York was brought from Pall Mall Tennessee last week for treatment.
Sperry and Hutchinson Company leases 10,890 square feet at Thomas Mall on Thomas Road and 44th Street for its Phoenix stamp redemption center. It is the state's largest of 10 and one of more than 800 nationwide. Manager Mrs. Juanita Deubler will run the 1,140-foot enclosed mall space with conveyor-belt service to customers.
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