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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1970
Page
2
The piece argues most teens are good citizens while a minority seeks power or attention. It urges better parent youth dialogue and community programs outside school to give youths more voice and responsibility as the new school year begins.
A local teacher urged teens to act on pollution by biking to school. The move faced silence as students doubted bikes in high school, though leaders are encouraged to lead by example and persuade peers to follow.
The Scottsdale Progress July 31, 1970 letter by B E “Barney” Burns, District 2 supervisor, argues the county has acted within existing zoning and building code rules. He notes 1969 amendments limit junkyards in Indi district, records from 1963 non conforming use approval, and 1970 state building code enablement with awaiting recommendations from the Comprehensive Code Analysis Council. He says officials must govern by law, not personal views.
A portrait of Throck Morton McBean at Megalopolis University as he and friends protest conformity. They debate violence and reform as decades pass, politics shift, and youth disengages, ending with a moral about worried youth versus those not fighting change.
The Town of Paradise Valley expresses appreciation for Progress coverage of town affairs. Mayor Jack B. Huntress notes the paper informs residents with advance notices and decisions, urging broader citizen subscription for thorough town activity awareness.
Registration of voters is now taking place and lists will close September 14. Regular voters who changed precincts should re register and those who did not vote in the last primary or general election must re register. Naturalized citizens must bring papers to register. New voters must reside in Arizona since November 3 1969 and be 21 by November 3 1970. Citizens may register at Los Arcos Mall Friday evenings September 4 and 11 from 7 to 9 pm with deputy registrars from the League of Women Voters available.
A reader complains Libra is consistently left out of the astrological forecast feature, noting it sits between Virgo and Scorpius, and praising the paper’s overall size and readability. The letter requests inclusion of Libra in upcoming forecasts.
A Phoenix reader thanks the Scottsdale Daily Progress for running free summer employment ads that helped her son Ken gain lawn mowing jobs. He had been a carrier for over two years and is now back in business, with the ads benefiting other students as well.
Kremlin observers note an influential but obscure Russian publishing network, Samizdat, which operates without modern presses or offices. Readers copy texts at home and disperse them chainletter style, giving a rare voice to dissent as Chronicle of Current Events tracks trials, protests, and arrests across Russia.
The Justice Department files civil suits against several large companies for dumping mercury into rivers and lakes across seven states. The action rests on an act passed by Congress in 1899, a law described by a news service as "little used."
A Pioneer Iowa Record column argues wrinkles signal age and life lessons, resisting cosmetic pressures to erase lines. The author, Mary McGrath, denounces ads promising youth with beauty products and celebrates wrinkles as insignia of endurance and lived experience.
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