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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1965
Page
2
Congressional hearings begin next month on a plan to repeal the right to work clause of federal labor law. Tornadoes rip across five Midwest states, killing and destroying communities. Episcopal Bishop A. Piké delays a plan to ordain a woman, awaiting House of Bishops guidance in September.
Arizona readers are advised of Easter services as Valley Christians plan to recall the Resurrection. Second Front Page notes military spending in the state is projected to rise by 13 million dollars in the 1965-46 fiscal year over the current year.
The Producers Life Insurance Co merger with National Life and Casualty appears assured after a Maricopa County court upheld a restraining order and a federal court refused an injunction. The merged entity, to be named National Producers Life Insurance Co, will have about 200 million in force and operate in 13 Western states with National Securities owning about 32 percent.
Seoul reports indicate President Park Chung Hee could suspend civil order as riotous demonstrations stretch into a fifth day opposing diplomatic ties with Japan. Police and security forces faced street clashes with about 10 000 protesters, with dozens injured and charges accusing opposition parties of plotting an uprising.
In Medellin Colombia police faced a two hour melee with demonstrators firing tear gas shells and arresting over 200 students. Reports say a bank closure preceded clashes between police riot squads and more than 2,000 high school students, with one student killed and hundreds injured or detained.
The 33 voice R G Singers from The Phoenix Gazette and The Arizona Republic will sing at Easter Sunrise Services at 6 am Sunday at the R G Ranch 4737 E Indian School directed by John T Brown. They perform Art Thou The Christ Geoffrey Yhara and the Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah Handel with Mrs Melvin Vail as accompanist and Ken Eddy delivering the Easter message.
Police say marijuana cigarettes were found in a sport shirt taken to the cleaners by a 25 year old Phoenix man. A laundry call led officers to arrest him when he came to claim the garments.
A second Good Friday earthquake struck Alaska causing no deaths or widespread destruction. The tremor rattled dishes in Nome and was felt across a dozen Eskimo villages in Norton Sound. Civil Defense director Lester Bronson noted concern over tidal wave danger in Unalakleet.
Moscow AP report says Nikita Khrushchev quietly marks his 71st birthday with children and grandchildren at his country dacha about 30 miles from Moscow. His Moscow apartment appeared unoccupied and no official notice was taken, a calendar edit following his ouster six months ago.
Thousands of starfish were washed onto a 500 foot stretch of Commmicut Point by tides. Dr. Charles J. Fish of the University of Rhode Island oceanography department said the starfish appeared to have been poisoned.
The Masters Quartet will perform at 7 pm tomorrow at Foursquare Gospel Church located at 67th Avenue and Campbell. Members include Fred Falduti Dan Wallace West Grosvenor Garry Starr and pianist Barbara Cummings.
The 66 voice Phoenix College a cappella choir will perform at junior colleges in Los Angeles and San Francisco next week. Director Kenneth Hakes says the program includes sacred songs songs of the South Brahms Liebes Lieders Waltzes and a Henry Meyers arrangement of When I Fall In Love.
Norman J. Ream of Lockheed Aircraft Corp will be keynote speaker at a three day conference of the Univac Users Association and Univac Scientific Exchange in the TownHouse. As director of systems planning he will discuss managing today with tomorrow s tools.
The Night of the Iguana runs at 18 30 at Phoenix Little Theater 25 E Coronado with additional showings. The Living Word in ane Ron Patty Singers appears at First Church of God Ninth Ave and Fillmore with 1 30 and 3 30 pm slides from Saguaro Camera Club. Heard Museum opens until 5 pm. The Living Word in Music by Ron Patty Singers at 8 pm at First Church of God Ninth Ave and Fillmore.
Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler asserted that a 100 billion production rise since 1961 shows the United States outproducing Western Europe and surpassing rival nations, framing the gain as a yardstick of American economic might. He contrasted U S output with Europe and the Soviet Union, and noted tax reform and monetary policy as key. Vermont C Royster of the Wall Street Journal was elected editors president, succeeding Miles H. Wolff.
Thirteen moon trainees from the latest NASA crew will travel from Houston to Flagstaff, Arizona, by NASA transport to visit Meteorite Crater and Lowell Observatory for a classroom discussion. The trip aims to study terrains resembling lunar surface.
Three men looted safety deposit boxes at the Sterling Hotel in Miami Beach during Passover celebrations, binding clerk Timothy Hayes and bell captain Charles Jernigan. About $130,000 in cash and jewels were taken, with police estimating $30,000 cash and $100,000 in jewels missing and the total could rise.
Burglars broke into Magnolia Chemical Co offices in Dallas yesterday and cracked the vault taking $250 in cash. They ignored a rare coin collection valued at $15,000, leaving it untouched.
Phoenix police answered 490 calls in the 24 hours ending at 10 am today including 61 traffic posidanta and nine with injuries. Major crimes listed include thefts, two grand thefts, two assaults, one assault with a deadly weapon, four burglaries, armed robbery, two bank robberies, and two narcotics possessions.
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