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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1977
Page
2
President Carter told four farm strike leaders at his Plains home that farm prices will have to rise as land becomes scarce and world population grows. He warned against violence and said the 1977 farm bill benefits begin next year while Secretary of Agriculture will meet with farmers from all 50 states early January to discuss higher prices.
Pasadena police and the Hillside Strangler Task Force investigated two fatal discoveries. A 23 year old black woman was found near Rose Bowl and a woman in her late teens or 20s was found in a Wilshire District parking lot. Two men were being questioned.
Oris Ruprecht 60 died Friday at home in Paradise Valley native of Illinois moved there in 1960 worked as a bookkeeper survivors include two daughters Titus John Lincoln and Linda Joyce Ruprecht services 11 a.m. Monday Arcadia Funeral Home interment Mt Emblem Cemetery Elmhurst Illinois memorials Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota or Mercy Clinic at St Josephs Hospital
Private memorial services were held Friday for Sarah B Seaton 8 at St Barnabas Desert Episcopal Church where her son in law Dr Ralph Hutton is minister. She was from Ireland and lived in Scottsdale since moving from Warwick Rhode Island. She died Thursday at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital survived by son David B Seaton Warwick RI daughter Mrs Ralph Hutton Paradise Valley sister six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Memorials will be at St Pauls Pawtucket RI later. arrangements Messinger Mortuary.
James W. Kimel 59 of 1050 N. 46th St. Phoenix died Thursday at St. Luke's Hospital. Born in Colorado he moved to Arizona in 1956 and worked as a meat cutter. Survivors include wife Bernice of Phoenix three sons Larry Gene and Charles all of Phoenix one brother and one sister out of state and five grandchildren. Services were held today at Green Acres Mortuary with private cremation afterward.
Five Valley bookstores including The Shack on Scottsdale Road faced temporary restraining orders barring sale of adult films and magazines. Authorities aimed to prove a 1981 state obscenity statute, with a Jan. 9 hearing to seek a permanent ban and potential turnover of sales proceeds.
Duane Fifer of Los Arcos Development Co. sues the Gilbert Industrial Development Authority in Maricopa County Superior Court accusing the private body of blocking a 5 million bond bid for a proposed retirement community. The suit seeks tape recordings of IDA meetings from late 1976 and cites alleged defamation of corporate character and improper demand for audited statements. Fifer says action was not taken after three months of weekly meetings, and further alleges officials inflated the bond request for personal gain.
The firm will raise rents to an average 80 dollars monthly, nearly tripling from current levels for about 3000 company housing units. In a letter to tenants, the Morenci and Ajo housing sites are cited, with costs framed as balancing housing expenses.
The Department of Public Safety says guardsman Donald Hart 34 of Chandler died in an accident after a week long probe. He was found Dec 15 near his overturned car in a canyon about 30 miles east of Payson.
Phoenix readers learn that 725 000 state income tax return booklets for 1977 will be mailed on Tuesday and Wednesday. The packet mirrors last year’s forms but adds a simplified tax credit form for the elderly and a separate form for owners of residential rental property to identify it.
Robert L. Misner, associate law professor at Arizona State University, will become the special assistant attorney general in Arizona. He will take the $34 000 per year post on January 7, filling the vacancy left by Mike Sophy who resigned in November. Bruce Babbitt announced the appointment Friday.
Forest Service officials hunt for arsonists after three December timber fires near Mount Lemmon smolder into today. The fires, started Tuesday and contained Wednesday, burned about 30 acres and threatened several cabins.
Police said burglars broke into Larry Kwan's residence at 6821 E. Palm Lane between 9:15 and 11:30 p.m. while the family was away. Loss includes 200 cash, a TV set, two stereo receivers, an 18 karat gold diamond pin valued at 1200, a man’s watch and turquoise jewelry. Kwan owns Kwan’s Chinese Restaurant in Scottsdale.
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