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Newspaper
Arizona Daily Sun
Location
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1963
Page
1
A 15 member Arizona committee will push the controversial tax status of the Salt River Project. Appointed by Gay Paul Fantin, the group includes Walter Burnson Phoenix banker and John Arme of Phoenix among others. The panel plans to meet early next week to discuss the project’s 31 property tax exemption and related issues.
Jakarta AP report says Hogi Samal, speaker of Indonesia's parliament and a wounded survivor of last May's assassination attempt on President Sukarno, died today at age 54 after a no feast attack. The piece notes postwar auto industry investments totaling 14 billion dollars for new plants and equipment.
Mississippi Democrats pressed a presidential primary proposal as Senate approval neared. Gov. Rees Barnett allies clashed with Kennedy loyalists over the bill, which aims to avoid party split and influence national politics while courting concessions on civil rights.
Forecast notes an unsettled trend with increasing cloudiness and a chance of rain or snow showers Sunday. Southwest winds 8 to 18 mph with stronger gusts. Low tonight 28, high tomorrow 48. Weather map lists regional readings including values for major cities and records to date.
Cabinet officers urge a domestic peace push as campaigns focus on youth and crime, with critics arguing for stronger order. The piece mocks political rhetoric and hints at tensions with Russia, mentioning pickets and a call to vote Republican.
The Spice Agency cites a faulty Fahrenheit reading for Fens as zero degrees, while the Kennedy administration releases a new personnel order. The conflicting items signal weather reporting errors and a reshuffle in federal staffing, prompting scrutiny from officials and observers.
In Pretoria, African students clashed with Lt. Col. William Wes sels district police commandant during a visit to Wilberforce Institute. The uproar followed the expulsion of five students accused of urging peers not to pay board or tuition fees. Authorities restored order as students attacked the policeman and stoned others.
Manila AP reports a Philippine Air Force plane with 27 aboard vanished over Mindanao near Malalag southwest of Davao City. A constabulary detachment said wreckage was found, but officials could not confirm the identify. A search party was en route after a six hour hunt found no trace of the craft.
Birmingham Examiner reports that 18 U S airmen were hired to replace inexperienced Cuban pilots for strafing runs during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Four Birmingham airmen died April 1961. their bodies were never recovered. Examiner editor Albert Purvis cites disagreement with Kennedy era planning and defends CIA as not to blame for the failure.
A campus stunt inspired by President Kennedy challenges Marine Corps officers and documents show the group plans to hike 50 miles along Lake Mary Road. Early reports indicate female hikers may outpace male counterparts, demonstrating the ASC campus’s view that the weaker sex is not the female.
Five U S Marines were killed when an HC transport helicopter crashed in the Zambales Mountains near Subic Bay Naval Base in western Luzon. Two Marines were badly burned and one is missing. the crash occurred during a routine local operation and the cause was not determined.
El Mundo reports a US CIA agent, identified as Manuel del Valle Carel, was arrested minutes before entering an unnamed embassy in Oriente Province. The paper calls him a radio operator for a spy network allegedly uncovered by the government last month.
Nancy Martinez a 27 year old from Santa Fe died after her heart pacemaker failed while she was at a Santa Fe doctor visit. Doctors say the device, implanted in October to close a heart hole, stopped functioning last Tuesday. External pacing revived her, she then suffered another arrest and was moved to hospitals in Santa Fe and Albuquerque for further care.
MADPY JACK Special projects for National 4H Week are discussed at the Happy Jack 441 Loggers monthly meeting. Club leaders name tasks for the week and plan a Valentine’s Day party with refreshments and games.
AP reports say Communist guerrillas killed four South Vietnamese defenders at a yard near a military watchtower three miles south of the Kien Hoa provincial capital. Three defenders were wounded. In another assault on a civil guard post in western Kien Tong one guerrilla was killed and four defenders wounded.
A garbled OCR excerpt presents scattered religious lines about acknowledgment and confession. The fragment mentions sin, salvation, and a reference to a Father and angels, but lacks coherent structure, context, or identifiable persons or places.
AP reports a day of routine warlike headlines as Recife center of a lobster trade dispute, while Soviet premier speculation in Moscow and Britain’s press coverage surface. Peace marchers head for Peking, Poland welcomes a visiting king, Moroccan crew reports shipwreck, Miss England controversy, and Egyptian raids target Saudia ports amid regional tension.
Police report Tiana Karama also known as Diana Holiday was arrested Friday night at the Highway House on East Highway 68 in Flagstaff after allegedly breaking $150 worth of windows with a water pitcher. Police Chief William Epperson cited the incident and noted an attempted assault on Patrolman Ben Thorn during the arrest.
A tribal election message from Navajo leaders urges Raymond Nakai as Chairman and Nelson Damon as Vice Chairman. It appeals for youthful, vigorous leadership and stronger protection of Navajo rights, stressing voting as a sacred duty and unity with Tendera of the tribe.
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