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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1961
Page
4
City manager Bob McNutt notes that Scottsdale’s property base has grown beyond 16% million in assessed value, with an estimated actual valuation around $60 million, reflecting a strong municipal investment in recent years.
Scottsdale Boys Club stops its year old flag program after 50 to 60 boys hung and retrieved flags on 12 holidays. Proceeds from a $3 per flag fee went to the club, with flags returned to 42 merchants. Programs to promote daily flag displays cited by Roy Ciappini as reason to discontinue.
Valley National Bank becomes the first nationally chartered bank to offer savings customers both daily interest and a monthly interest check. President Carl Bimson states the plan, effective tomorrow, computes interest on daily balances at 3 percent, the maximum under current law.
Tempe Kiwanis Club sponsors an eighth straight Fourth of July event at ASU Sun Devil Stadium Tempe with gates at 6 45 p m first act by Phoenix Clown Club 7 plus TV stars Wallace and Ladmo 7 30 to 8 00 color guard Arizona Civil Air Patrol opens fireworks display costing 3500 with adult tickets 1 child 25 cents at the gate proceeds fund youth projects
Flagstaff Arizona scouts report 10000 to 15000 Indians from about 50 tribes will attend the 32nd All Indian Pow Wow over the July 4 weekend. Navajo Nation and Hopi participants join campers on Mars Hill with rodeos, parades, and ceremonial dances. Cash prizes exceed 30000, as 75 wagons and numerous tribal dance teams join hundreds of campfires near the San Francisco Peaks. White visitors from most states expected as motel reservations suggest a near record turnout.
In Los Angeles, Carol Cons testifies in a divorce case that husband Carl Cons used a ouija board to communicate with his dead father, demanding nightly seances over intimacy. She recalls neglect, lack of clothing, help from neighbors, and reduced finances while raising three children. Cons denies the divorce claims.
Kenneth W. Watters III son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth W Waters Jr of Scottsdale Arizona was promoted to private first class June 19 in Germany He serves with the 18th Artillery Battery C in Hawau as a jeep driver Watters entered the Army in September 1960 received basic training at Fort Ord California and arrived overseas last February
Rome reports police are tightening controls to end a vicious trafficking network exploiting would be emigrants. The case centers on Luigi Sorrentino, a former Sing Sing inmate dubbed The Tomb, who ran grisly methods including a rented villa and murder for hire.
ASU's 1960-61 income totaled 11.847 million with 5.781 million from state appropriations about 48.8 percent. Major funds came from student fees 2.457 million and auxiliaries 2.3 million. The president's report notes 1.227 million in gifts and grants and 21,760 enrolled students, up from 19,563.
The state traffic safety division distributes a digest of statutes on driver licensing. It notes suspensions for injury producing accidents and reckless driving, revocation for double drunk driving convictions, and penalties for driving on suspended licenses, with jail terms and fines specified for first and second offenses.
United Feature Syndicate columnist Ed Koterba aged 42 and four others were killed when their twin engine plane struck power lines and plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Lapush Washington. Koterba and Don Cornwell a 40 year old El Paso Natural Gas pilot were recovered Thursday. The remaining three victims were recovered from the surf shortly after the crash.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett of Florida donated a $1000 personal check to the Treasury Secretary to help reduce the 288 billion dollar national debt. The act follows a Kennedy signed law authorizing gifts to reduce the debt.
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