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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1977
Page
2
On Friday Captain Marvel and his team faced Scottsdale Boys Club members in a water fight at the lab on 7502 E Osborn Rd. Defenders used squirt guns water balloons and hoses to halt the attack. If Captain Marvel had won the plan was to turn the club into a library.
After a secret session Sen. John Stennis predicted Senate approval of funding while retaining presidential veto power. Supporters won two key votes but avoided final action amid a looming filibuster. Carter has yet to decide, seeking flexibility in review of weapons amid arms control concerns.
Next week lists public sessions for Scottsdale Paradise Valley and Scottsdale School District governing bodies. July 5 includes Scottsdale City Council study session and public hearing with a following regular meeting, Paradise Valley Planning and Zoning Commission, and Scottsdale School Board. July 6 features the Board of Adjustment and July 7 the Development Review Board.
Arizona may reimpose pest inspections for private vehicles entering from California. State Agriculture and Horticulture Commission chair Jack Currie said the director's order to halt inspections Oct 1 drew strong farmer backlash and a public hearing is being planned in Phoenix to gather views. Currie, a Tacna farmer, noted the three member panel could reverse the decision and urged statewide hearings to consider farmers unable to attend the meeting.
Scottsdale Community College extends its veterans survey through August end. About 3,000 households in central Scottsdale have been surveyed to locate veterans, inform them of benefits, and boost SCC enrollment. Interviewers ask about veteran status service dates employment and interest in fall classes.
Paradise Valley planning panel will hear Ascension Lutheran Church request for a special use permit to operate as a conforming use at 7100 N Mockingbird Lane with site changes. Also on agenda, final plat for Quail Hollow subdivision of 16 lots between 50th and 52nd Streets south of Gold Dust Avenue, following council approval of the preliminary plat May 12.
Police report three Scottsdale burglaries totaling over $7,000 in merchandise. Mona Haber’s home lost patio furniture worth 3,600 from an open rear patio while the victims were home. C E Carter’s residence saw 2,000 in tools taken from an enclosed garage. Margret Najarian’s house yielded jewelry valued at more than 1,400 after a pried front window.
A wage and benefits settlement was reached in Phoenix avoiding a one day walkout by Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 469 in Phoenix and Local 741 in Tucson. The three year statewide contract runs until June 30, 1978 with retroactive 60 cent and 50 cent hourly increases and covers about 190 contractors and 2500 workers.
William Weber was robbed at gunpoint in the Safari Hotel parking area on Scottsdale Road around 1 30 a m. The assailant, a well groomed man in his early 20s wearing an Hawaiian shirt, fled with $80 to $85 in cash.
A plane suspected of smuggling contraband was detected on radar over the Papago Reservation and forced back into Mexico. It landed 70 miles from the border in Caborca as Mexican officials joined the search for the pilot who disappeared in the 45,000 person city.
U S attorney Mike Hawkins said two Phoenix businesses agreed to civil judgments totaling 4000 for concealing illegal aliens. David Eaves, plant manager at Custom Bolt Manufacturing Co., pleaded guilty Friday to concealing an illegal alien in federal court. Jury deliberations began in a separate case. John F. Schlotfeld, 61, former Alhambra Elementary official, faces charges of falsifying records to move budget surpluses between fiscal years and of taking part in the scheme.
Michael Covington, a former Maricopa County jail inmate, sues Sheriff Paul Blabaum and county supervisors for 50000 alleging negligence leading to tuberculosis infection contracted from a fellow prisoner during a three month jail stay in 1975.
An Albuquerque resident, John R. McIntyre 52, died at the scene when the car he rode in crossed the center line on I 40 three miles east of Seligman and collided head on with a two ton truck. Five others were injured and a second truck was forced off the road.
A 1977 television event on world hunger airs Tuesday at 6 00 PM on KPHO TV. World Vision International sponsors The Cry of a Hurting World I M Hungry featuring Art Linkletter Julie Andrews Steve Allen Jayne Meadows and many other stars. The program highlights hunger and malnutrition worldwide with interviews and on site stories from Bangladesh Brazil the Philippines India Kenya and more. Hosted by World Vision president Stan Medneyham the program aims to show solutions and acts of charity across religious charitable and government campaigns.
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