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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1952
Page
9
Saturday event near Scottsdale Road and Camelback Road ends with the recovery of Philis Lighter 25 of North Central Avenue and Harold L. Franke 51 of Phoenix. The car wedged under the steering wheel. Franke died after rescue attempts fail. An inquest was deemed unnecessary.
Twenty Scotts dais Chamber of Commerce members learned of a fall and winter fashion show series to be staged around the pool at Camelback Inn. Six shows are planned with Phoenix merchants sponsoring four and Scottsdale merchants two. H E Roush of the Better Business Bureau spoke at the monthly meeting, describing the bureau as watchdog of the public purse and noting chamber membership costs 50 dollars annually.
Scottsdale Planning and Zoning members argued that proposed center of street parking on East First Avenue would pose a traffic hazard. They plan informal talks with the Town Council to decide if the shopping center’s advantages outweigh the drawbacks and who will approve or reject the plan.
A utility hearing for Mocking Bird Water Company to enlarge its certificate of convenience and necessity to serve domestic water is set for Wednesday June 18 at 10 o clock in the Arizona Corporation Commission Phoenix offices. The proposed service area includes parts of sections 19 20 21 22 29 28 27 31 and 34 in Town 3 North Range 4 East G SRB M Maricopa County Arizona.
A non political non profit non sectarian cultural club named Club Francias is organized to unite French speaking people and those interested in France's influence. For more information contact Paul Coze at 1141 East Bethany Home Road Phoenix.
Baptists plan 40th anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Scottsdale with address by Rev. C Marvin Andersen returning from Hawthorn California to speak. The event on Thursday June 12 includes a 6 p.m. covered dish supper and 7 30 p.m. program with four former pastors and three surviving charter members in attendance.
Mrs Walker McCune and her mother Mrs L F Bingamon will leave June 9 for Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
A calendar lists events from June 7 to June 12 including driver tests at the Magistrate's office Kiwanis and Women’s Sweep Stakes at Paradise Alleys a Town Council meeting at town hall a Business and Professional Women's club picnic at Ruth Dickinson’s home and a Lions Club gathering at Outpost.
Al Lindsey of Scottsdale and representative from Legislative District 11 is among 27 veterans selected to receive farms on the Yuma Mexa irrigation project near Yuma. A drawing by the U S Bureau of Reclamation awarded farms ranging from 118 to 160 acres with title to be granted after final qualifications.
Rhoda Smithson and Genevieve Sabine shared first in the piano recital at the high school auditorium. The $60 tuition prize for Tempe summer music camp was split, with other winners named by grade levels and Marilyn Dedrick earning the recital attendance prize. Judges included Miles Dreskell Alberta Heath and Kenneth Wells. A second contest recital is planned for spring.
Mrs Alfred G Wilson of Meadowbrook Farms Rochester Michigan and Mira Monte Scottsdale Arizona has been elected a Beloit College trustee. Matilda Dodge Wilson known in Detroit finance and automotive circles has served on Michigan State College board of regents and briefly as Michigan lieutenant governor. Her husband, a Beloit graduate, has been on the Beloit board since 1930, making a rare husband and wife trustee team. She will attend her first meeting June 6.
Scottsdale Town Council certified May 26 election results at Tuesday night’s meeting and named Malcolm White as mayor by unanimous vote. The session included a hydrant funding letter from Phoenix Mayor Nicolas Udall and a request to extend Metro bus service to 65th Street and Indian School Road and to Camelback Estates on North Scottsdale Road.
One hundred students attended the first meeting of a Bible school sponsored by Scottsdale Baptist and Methodist churches at the Methodist church. Rev. Powell Green, dean, announced the program titled The Bible for All the World.
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