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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1951
Page
7
Scottsdale changes regular monthly meeting date to the second Tuesday to ensure town payments can be handled by the 15th. Ordinances reorganize town, adopt bylaws, and pass readings. Rural Fire Protection proposes a new contract with 6 year term and rate adjustments tied to annexation.
Final rites for Mrs. June Peterson 60 were held Tuesday at 12 30 p m from Memory chapel A L Moore and Sons mortuary Phoenix Burial followed in East Resthaven Park cemetery Rev J Franklin Dodson of First Baptist Prescott officiated She was wife of Roy Peterson owner of Scottsdale Motors and died Monday after a yearlong absence Survivors include two daughters Barbara Hammond Doris Cox a son Glenn Peterson her father Henry Fox two brothers Ben and Merle Fox a sister Ruth Farrow and five grandchildren
The Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce board will meet Thursday night August 30 at the Outpost to set a date and plan the 1951 52 winter season opening. A chicken dinner precedes the meeting at 7 30.
Members of Sipe Peterson Post No. 44 American Legion will hold their regular monthly meeting Tuesday night September 4 at 8 00 in the auditorium of the Legion home. The Women's Auxiliary will also meet the same evening at the Legion home at 8 00.
Scottsdale joins hundreds of communities to sponsor National Kid's Day on September 22. Mort Kimsey Kiwanis president says the third annual event honors underprivileged children and youth achievements with a day of fun and recognition. The celebration is noncommercial and supported by 3,300 Kiwanis clubs with the National Kid's Day Foundation Inc. of Hollywood California.
Bill Joyce was named president succeeding A. V. Halterman after his third term. Mort Kimsey becomes vice president with Mrs. Cletis Smith as secretary treasurer. New officers will serve until May 1952 and study by-laws this week.
The Sun Devil football team will depart Tempe at 8 a.m. Friday for Prescott to conduct early fall drills on Prescott High School field through September 16. About 100 personnel join, including Arvil Burkett and Dennis Palmer, Scottsdale High graduates, with Burkett an end and Palmer a starting fullback.
Bob Hilliard sixteen was reported improving slowly at Memorial hospital after an automobile crash Saturday night. His badly injured right arm may be saved, with good chances noted. Phoebe Andrews sixteen was released after treatment, and four other teenagers escaped injury when the convertible overturned after a passing car forced them off East Thomas road in the 5400 block while returning from a skating party.
Twenty three hopeful candidates reported for the first practice session of Scottsdale High school's 1951 football campaign led by Coach Richard Jiggs Hardt. Rain and mud limited drills to skull practice and pep talks. by midweek limbering up and fundamentals demonstrations were planned in the gym. Hardt said only seven more prospects remained to reach a 30 man squad, far from Tolleson High's 93. Practices continue twice daily until September 10 with assistants Bill Kelly and Ray Pleneta.
The Maricopa County Planning and Zoning commission will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. on September 5 at the County Court House on Paradise Valley matters. A 10 a.m. session at 94 West Moreland will study zoning recommendations likely to affect Paradise Valley. Lew Haas of the association is expected to attend.
Scottsdale and the Valley of the Sun felt heavy rain for three days from Sunday night into Wednesday. Precipitation reached four inches on average with three to five inches across the region. Flood control gates opened along Indian Bend to channel floodwaters toward Salt River. canal banks acted as dikes. Downtown was muddy. Paradise Valley and Tempe roads were washed out. about 1000 new adobes for a new home were washed away.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Smith Lane and Citrus Road hosts a public Spanish dinner Friday night from 5 to 9 pm to fund the church building. Dinner will be cooked and served by the Relief Society ladies.
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