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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1974
Page
5
The guide outlines choosing room use to set mood, arranging seating for conversation or TV, and ensuring traffic flow. It covers traffic paths, ease of reach to switches, and avoiding blocked furniture. It emphasizes balance with architecture, color weight, focal points, and avoiding overcrowding while considering light and views.
The piece argues expanding an attic to add space can be cheaper than moving, with housing costs around 10 percent of selling price. It notes attic expansion can raise resale value and curb appeal, and suggests reroofing and applying asphalt shingles as cost-saving measures.
Dr. Bill Daniel outlines when to renovate a yard to avoid full resodding. In early fall, assess grass health, kill broadleaf weeds with 2 4 D and Silvex, overseed with thin powder and power rake to loosen thatch, then water to germinate. Apply light fertilizer three weeks after seedlings appear and again in late fall for denser turf.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety and the National Weather Service issue guidance on thunderstorms lightning and flash floods. Readiness tips include staying indoors, watching forecasts, avoiding washes, and recognizing tornado watches and warnings.
Guidance warns against metal equipment during lightning and floods. Seek shelter in buildings or caves if needed, avoid high ground and lone trees, and use cars for protection. When crossing flooded dips know depths, abandon stalled vehicles, and inform someone of travel plans while monitoring radio updates.
A University of Arizona landscape team led by Warren D. Jones and Drs. AE Thompson and LeMoyne Hogan develops drought tolerant desert flora. They test lantana hummingbird trumpet Ruellia and jojoba as groundcovers and cross coastals with desert broom to enhance water efficiency. Field trials planned in Yuma Mesa and Tucson.
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