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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1959
Page
1
Weekend lake incident highlights common courtesy and decency. The piece argues laws, patience, and small acts of kindness slow life and reduce accidents. It urges motorists to park away from shorelines and share space, suggesting friendly behavior boosts business and lowers stress.
Ten years ago Scottsdale events include two trustee candidates Walter B. Walt and Jesus Corral for School District No. 48. Betty Dees Bobbie Wright and Joan Walt to judge 4 H clothing. Shirley Adams Betty Baggio to judge food. Kiwanis elects Beri Owens president with Cletis Smith and AL Warren Austin as officers. Talent show winners at T Bar T theater: Marvin Rosco Don Cain, second Madelynne Kleen, third Harvey Smith, fourth Barbara Ann Donn. Don Baumann joins Renan firm with Charles Renan.
The Town of Scottsdale holds a dedication ceremony for a new sewerage collection treatment and disposal system. Led by Mayor Malcolm White and the Town Council, with late Fearny C. Fitch credited for the project, the event is Sunday October 25 at 3 00 p.m. at the sewer plant Van Buren and Miller road. Public invited. refreshments will be served.
Arizona Public Service reports 28 gas meters installed in September and 52 new electric meters in Scottsdale. Valley installations for September show a 15 percent increase from the previous year.
John C. Colwell named manager of the Paradise Valley branch of First National Bank of Arizona. A Pennsylvania native, he joined the bank in November 1955 after work with Seneca County Trust Co. and Chemung Canal Trust Co. He is married to Dorothy Scanlon of Sacramento. Ralph T. Yeomans Jr. assists Colwell. Yeomans joined in September 1955 and serves as treasurer of the Central Arizona Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation.
Three new candidate Scouts joined Boy Scout Troop 4 last Thursday night. They are Gerald W. Curtis Don Whited and Mike A. Lasky all of Scottsdale. The evening featured re registration of 25 scouts and a recap by green bar leaders. Troop 4 meets at Scottsdale Tonalea Elementary School Thursdays at 7 30 pm inviting boys 11 years or older to join.
A humorous reminiscence about social blunders in crowds and intimate settings. An editor recalls a wife left with strangers after a dance, a German naming mix up at a Kansas weekly, and a Denver steakhouse dare involving a leaf prank that triggers communal laughter and red faces.
A 1959 world list shows 1 050 US associations and societies many missing in Scottsdale. Installation of the first gas street light on Brown Ave underway. Scottsdale High coach Virgil Savage loses players to injuries and illness. Subscription contest offers a Ford hardtop prize.
The property leased from Harry Lenart, president of American Beauty Co in Scottsdale, was built by First National Bank with Edward L Varney and Associates as architects and Kitchell Phillips Inc as general contractor. The bank will open for business on Monday October 26.
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