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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
5
Special guests Wallace Platt and Dave Goodwin, Scottsdale High School representatives to Boys State at Flinestare, spoke at Vie n Eddie's cafe about their experiences and benefits from Boys State. They thanked the Kiwanis club and American Legion Stee Peterson Post No 44 for sponsorship and attendance.
KTAR program director Howard Pyle will travel to Flagstaff on Saturday to manage the public address system for the annual Indian Southwest Pow-Wow. He has long promoted the event since its inception several years ago.
A note reads that the next meeting will be a dessert luncheon at Vie ’n Eddie’s cafe on Tuesday July 5 following readings from the poetry of Edgar Clark.
Articles of Incorporation authorize Western Engineering and Die Casting Company in Phoenix Arizona with Theodore Milutin John Chesson and Ralph R Tully as organizers. Principal office in Phoenix and potential offices elsewhere. Authorized capital stock is 200000 dollars in 20000 shares par 10 each. Directors named at formation: Ralph K Tully Theodore Milutin John Chesson.
State Highway Division in Phoenix urges motorists to slow down for the three day Fourth of July holiday as more than 50 000 vehicles travel Arizona highways. Speeding blamed for one third of fatal accidents and 33 state chapters back the public campaign to cut holiday deaths. Tips include obeying speed limits keeping control stopping early at intersections maintaining safe following distance signaling turns and slowing at sundown to ensure stopping within lights.
The Scottsdale Squares will hold a bi weekly dance on Saturday night July 2 at 9 on the high school tennis court. Earl Jackson president invites community members to attend and learn to dance. Hosts are Mr and Mrs Tom Wheeler and Mr and Mrs Kent Hiatt.
The Navy Department told Lieutenant Commander William B. Garrison that 1 500 Naval Aviation Cadets will be appointed in the new fiscal year starting July 1. Applicants must be 18 to 27, two years of college, unmarried, meet physical standards. Cadets get 75 dollars monthly plus board lodging uniforms and 10 000 dollars insurance. After 18 months training they become ensign in the USNR.
New York report says the 1949 March of Dimes raised a record 25,728,000 to fight polio. Basil O’Connor, president of the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, announced the totals. last year’s figure was 21,400,000. Half the funds go to research and half to local chapters.
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