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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1977
Page
2
Summer heat hit 114 degrees as Scottsdale Church participants joined a masquerade parade. Children dressed as a cowboy, spacemen, dancer, Batman, and a queen led by Joyce Sackett described the playful event at the Palo Alto area preschool and church group on Granite Reef Road.
A Wednesday fire on the Salt River Indian Reservation at McDowell and Alma School Roads caused about 15 000 in damage to Jack's Fruit Stand. Three fire units responded plus a tanker. the blaze started at 4 37 p.m. and no one was inside. Owner is Jack Landress of Mesa.
Robert A. Taylor, 62, of 815 North 52nd Street, died Tuesday at Tempe Community Hospital. Born in Utah, he moved to the Valley in 1966 from Nevada and was a World War II Army veteran. He worked as a grounds keeper at Chaparral High School for ten years. He is survived by his wife Mildred, sons Robert Taylor and Bill Brown, his mother Margaret Taylor, a brother Samuel, a sister Barbara Marcella, and two brothers and two sisters out of state. Visitation at Green Acres Mortuary tonight from 7 to 9. Graveside services Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Green Acres Memorial Gardens.
Wayne A. Cowan 65 of 7509 E. Almeria Rd. Scottsdale died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. A Pennsylvania native who moved to the Valley in 1958, he was WWII Army veteran and member of the Masonic Lodge E Zaribah Shrine and Consistory. He worked as a non food items salesman for 20 years. Survivors include wife Wilma sons Samuel California and David Georgia daughter Deborah Lowden Mesa two sisters Sun City and others out of state five grandchildren. Services 3 30 p.m. Friday Green Acres Mortuary with private cremation.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that rape may not be punished by death, signaling possible limits on capital punishment for crimes beyond murder. Ehrlich Coker, a rapist and kidnapper, will face life with possible parole in seven years. Civil rights groups praised the decision.
Scottsdale Parks and Recreation Commission approved preliminary designs for Alamos Park at Osborn and Miller Roads. Gazebo tops priority. the three acre park includes a playground restrooms and a combined bike and jogging path. Final plans to be reviewed with Coe and Van Loo and the Sister City Committee.
Two Scottsdale youths ages 16 and 13 were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of posing as newspaper carriers to collect 1.15 dollars from a home of Orme Morehead. The older boy had previously collected 2.50 on June 23. They fled when questioned, but were later taken into juvenile custody.
Dixie Rowley, 53, of Chester Arkansas, is in satisfactory condition at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital after a two car collision at 68th Street and McDowell Road. Her husband Melvin Rowley 44 was driving and was cited for a left turn violation. Martin Jacobs 28 of Tempe drove the other car and reported no injuries.
The Navajo Area School Board Association announces the termination of consultant Jack Crowder amid earlier accusations he acted as a reservation spy for Senator Barry Goldwater. The board approved the firing until investigations determine any links to individuals involved in violence.
Senate President Ed Sawyer of Arizona demands equal time from KTVK-TV to respond to alleged inaccuracies in the documentary Vernon Hoy Crimefighter on a Tight Budget aired Wednesday. Sawyer calls the half hour program a biased attempt to justify a predetermined narrative in a formal letter to station manager Burton Ladow.
A tentative agreement covers 2,500 plumbers and pipe fitters in Arizona but a one day strike is planned. Bakers sign a three year contract with Safeway Stores, while Holsum Bakery Inc. remains on a 20th day strike with no progress reported.
The Mesa School Board voted 3 to 2 to create a fundamental school teaching the three R's with emphasis on discipline and respect after five months of lobbying by People for Basic Education. A fall opening is possible.
A Southern Pacific engineer George Coleman 61 of Phoenix was badly hurt when a rock shattered the cab window on a Tempe to Phoenix run. He suffered a broken jaw loss of teeth deep facial cut and eye injuries from glass, after which he underwent hours of surgery and was listed in fair condition.
Former Scottsdale resident Stephen P. Thibideau testified at his Maricopa County trial he wanted to frame a police informant to put him in jail not kill him. He said he devised a plan to have officer Robert Powers kill Donald Sullivan to prompt a police inquiry into a stolen handgun.
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