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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1961
Page
1
Amid tensions over Outer Mongolia and Manchuria a Kennedy administration move faces criticism. The State Department weighs seating Mongolia with China and seeks clarity on U N admission while Chinese nationalist strains push back.
City Manager Bob McNutt announced next week a local council review of an appraisal on the Scottsdale portion of the city water system. The report, prepared by Henningson, Durham and Richardson of Phoenix, will guide possible purchase negotiations with Phoenix. Also pending is a $3,000 water table survey completed by Hans Thiele, a consulting hydrologist, ordered months ago and expected soon.
Wild winds and flood rains sweep Kansas City and the wheat belt stretching to Maryland. Drought and a grasshopper plague threaten crops in the West and Wisconsin with federal aid sought for drought-stricken livestock farmers. July 6 records cold, with all-time lows and storms closing plants as rain floods parts of Missouri and Kansas.
The Scottsdale city council last night approved a general sales tax increase to a full penny no change on food tax and a liquor tax rise from half to one cent with auto sales cut a quarter cent. The changes take effect July 15 and other items remain at three quarters of a cent. City Manager Bob McNutt estimated an extra 40000 in sales tax receipts, with a potential surplus if returns exceed 212000 this year, to fund paving on a one mile Thomas Road segment. The council also lowered the business license tax to 1 dollar per year and split votes showed opposition from Flanigan Knudsen and Clayton.
Caroline Kennedy slipped from a pool float at a birthday party for Ivan Steers at the Washington area home of Newton Steers. Jane Saltonstall, wife of a Massachusetts official, sprang into the pool and retrieved the child. No injuries were reported.
Raymond Rubicam and Winifred Smith, both of Scottsdale, bought the new office building at 77 W. Third Ave. The sellers were four Phoenix men who developed the property less than a year ago: Marvin Weinstein, John Gobins, Haskell Wexler, and Blaine Drake.
City council tabled a proposed $5,000 cash settlement in the water pollution suit filed by Mrs. Jewell Nigh over Scottsdale sewage discharges. Nigh sought $30,000, claiming her water well was polluted. council members urged submitting damage evidence before any settlement.
Paradise Valley planning and zoning commission established a subdivision control committee and a roads and streets committee. Members include High Milligan George Andrews C Dorothy Patterson and C Richard Barth with Dee han C W Bailey and Barth named for roads. A July 20 hearing in town hall on a APS use permit to build a substation on Lincoln Road west of Invergordon was set.
Khrushchev spoke on a broad world stage praising cooperation with North Korea and pledging mutual military aid. Reporters noted the era’s warning stance toward the United States and rising protests against American influence in Asia and Japan’s government facing pressure from imperialist authorities.
The Daily Progress will announce winners in a comic page contest on Saturday. Youngsters were invited to write 100 words or less on their likes and dislikes in Daily Progress comic strips. Authors of the three letters judged best by the judges will win free meals for themselves and their families at the Zulu Belle Restaurant.
Readable bits describe a discussion on government use and public benefits. The text hints at evaluating effectiveness and recreation access but is largely garbled with missing phrases and unclear context.
Scottsdale's 1961-62 budget was approved last night with only seven attendees at the hearing including two reporters. Expenditures total 9,504,351 dollars, about 2 million more than the prior year, funding higher pay for teachers and staff and operations for three new schools. The plan creates four new staff positions including a school psychologist at a salary unspecified, while district personnel management receives 7,000 dollars.
The FBI joins small-town marshals in a multi-state manhunt for a stocky killer who abducted a teen girl. Sheriff Stecks cites odds of finding Denise Sullivan alive dropping from 1 in 100 to as low as 1 in 1,000. authorities fear the girl may be slain by the same gunman who killed her mother and wounded another.
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