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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1960
Page
2
A reader comments on Arizona politics and state laws noting bills often pass and urging a statute cleanup. He supports a driver license fee increase to fund traffic enforcement and highway safety while critiquing coverage of Scottsdale in national magazines.
Scottsdale residents vote February 23 on a home-rule charter establishing a council-manager government and four bond measures to fund city improvements. The measures cover jail and police facilities, sewer expansion, and a traffic bottleneck fix on Indian School Road Scottsdale. Supporters urge yes votes to fund services and orderly growth.
A Warren Austin longtime Tempe native and Scottsdale civic leader serves as secretary and immediate past president of the Scottsdale Coordinating Council. He helped Arizona transition to statehood, taught in Tempe, farmed near Scottsdale, and later operated a Golden Guernsey dairy. He has chaired the county farm bureau and led civic development including land acquisition and a community swimming pool.
A reader defends the City Charter from two critical letters, praising the Freeholders Committee for their work and arguing they pursued expert guidance and public interest. The letter notes reliance on model charters from Arizona and guidance books, with final legal drafting by an attorney and concerns about salaries becoming political football.
Scottsdale Sportsmen's Club members organized a February cleanup to remove trash from a rifle range area. Club president John Masterson warned that continued littering could force closure. volunteers included numerous members and families who documented the effort.
Paul Daniel Morton, communications officer with the Scottsdale Marshal's office, was promoted to sergeant on February 1 per Town Marshal Bill Downing. Morton joined the force in May 1959 and has lived in Arizona since 1942. His father, the Rev. C. L. Morton, is assistant state supervisor of Presbyterian churches.
The Pima elementary school P-TA will meet Tuesday February 16 at 7 30 in the Tonto cafetorium. Scott Wallace of the Maricopa safety department will speak and show a film. A skit by the second and third grades titled The Court of the King and Queen of Heartville will be presented.
Editorial notes the charter aims for simplicity and functional government, contrasting with lengthy Phoenix style documents. It argues the charter is a starting point, not final, with ordinances still passable and changes possible by voter vote after careful preliminary work by the Board of Freeholders.
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