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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1956
Page
1
Bill McKnight comes home after forty years in the Navy to visit friends and relatives in Scottsdale before resuming duties at the San Diego Naval Station.
Northwest notes Geraldine Smithson of Flagstaff visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs John H Smithson while Floyd Ramsey family arrived home Sunday after spending two weeks in Santa Ana and San Diego visiting and attending the Square Dante Festival.
Glendale holds its annual Melon Festival at Glendale Memorial Stadium and Glendale High School Football Field from July 1 to 14. Activities start at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday and run all day Friday and Saturday with a water melon bust on Friday and Saturday nights at 6 p.m. Iced watermelon is served free to all attendees.
The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation extends last season's cotton loan deadlines to December 31. Growers may redeem or sell equity, with market prices for grades strengthening. Outstanding 1955 cotton loans total 6,139,982 bales, usage rules apply, and minimum price supports are set for 1956. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dart vacationing in Mexico City plan visits to Taxco and Cuernavaca.
The Post Office Department announced effective June 30 1956 it will operate under a 13 period year with two biweekly pay periods per period. This aims to simplify accounting and align interim reports while preserving the government fiscal year ending June 30. Public relations and external reporting remain on calendar months for still existing transactions.
ASU hosts a public discussion on horse breaking training and showing techniques on Saturday July 1 in the Memorial Union ballroom. Four experts including Norman West Roy Patton Buck Nichols and Louis Taylor will cover psychology fundamentals gaited jumping parade and showing methods. Dr Roy C Rice says the session aims to promote better horse handling across the state.
Proposal for a new Scottsdale project includes a golf course restaurant bar and riding club on 400 acres at the east end of Indian Bend Road. Incorporators listed Carroll J. Pierce president Fred Eldran vice president Dr Phillip FE Schneider treasurer and Ingel L Anderson secretary.
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