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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1960
Page
1
Scottsdale passes stringent anti litter law to regulate disposal of trash and distribution of hand bills. The measure stems from a campaign led by the Business and Professional Women's Club and targets litter control. Aimed at both commercial and non commercial handouts, the ordinance signals tough enforcement.
Three educators from the Scottsdale school system were named elementary principals after an open meeting with the district school board. Olan Moore Hush Clark and Al Kwiatkowski were chosen from staff from Arcadia Tealea Ingleside and Scottsdale High with prior roles as counselors teachers and administrators. The board disclosed no specific school assignments. An accompanying ordinance section bans littering and sets sidewalk and poster rules in Scottsdale.
The Scottsdale Kiwanis club discussed installing lights around the Adobe house and center grounds for night social events. The club pledges 500 dollars plus member labor and has completed projects at the library and Adobe house, plus a drive for discarded eyeglasses and jewelry for New Eyes for the Needy. Bob Lytle of the Arizona Dairy association spoke, introduced by A Warren Austin.
Scottsdale school board approved attendance boundaries for 13 elementary schools to begin next fall. Readiness projects cover Hopi Navajo Hohokam sites with varied construction costs and soil conditions.
Town Manager Gorton Allison announced recruitment for a full-time town engineer who will oversee all public works and construction, supervise street development and maintenance, review subdivision plates and zoning applications, and head the sewer plant and system. The position covers all public works related duties for Scottsdale.
A group of investors plans The Pyramids a luxury resort on North Scottsdale Road between MacDonald and Lincoln with a two acre lake golf course and 20 circular accommodations designed by Donald Van Ess. Ground breaking eyed for late next fall with completion by winter 1961. The project received a use permit over Paradise Valley objections.
Scottsdale joins fellow Arizona towns urged by the League of Arizona Cities and Towns to circulate petitions for a voter measure. If approved in November, municipalities would receive 25 percent of state sales tax revenue from the first two percent of state law, up from 10 percent. Petitions to sign are available at the town hall on Main Street.
The Scottsdale Community Center hosts the Lo Li Pi Ou Sa district Girl Scout and Brownie day camp with 218 girls registered from Brownies to seventh grade. Daily sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. with activities including badge work, archery, swimming, campcraft, home nursing, and first aid. Camp leadership features director Mrs George McConaha and assistants, with Mariner Scouts and Troop 372 juniors aiding. The camp runs through June 4 and invites visitors.
A sign on the southeast corner of Scottsdale road and Rancho Vista drive publicizes the location of a 200 room Scottsdale Inn luxury motor hotel in north Scottsdale. Investors from California and Arizona form a firm to develop the project, which sits just north of the Safari hotel and near the planned Pyramids resort on North Scottsdale road.
A report by Sam A. Phillips of Henningson Durham Richardson outlines two sewer system options for Scottsdale to handle growth projected to 100,000 by 1980. Plan A relocates the plant near Hayden road at $587,400 plus $26,400 yearly. Plan B expands the present Van Buren plant at $518,160. The firm favors Plan A for location despite higher initial cost, citing safety and acceptability.
Scottsdale man George Gates Sanborne of West Cherry Lynn will join more than 100 classmates for Princeton University 50th anniversary events celebrating the class of 1910 in Princeton New Jersey. He is invited to play the piano during the entertainment program and departs June 7 with his wife Louise Dixon Sanborne to attend. He began teaching after graduation, retiring after 42 years mainly in Union City New Jersey schools. The couple lived in Asheville North Carolina before relocating to Scottsdale.
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