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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1965
Page
2
The digest explores how new excise tax cuts affect purchases such as cars and air conditioners and potential living cost changes. It notes Udall denying Johnson follows Goldwater policy and mentions sociology on church class dynamics. It previews AMA convention themes and stock market interpretation by Sam Dawson.
An American nurse voices complex feelings about departing Viet Nam as Hal Boyle reports for Associated Press. Meanwhile Marshal Ivan Konev, in a Moscow memoir excerpt, says Stalin ordered faster Berlin operations after learning Allies would enter the city.
Phoenix police plan to divide the city into three districts to improve patrols and response times. The move aims to streamline operations across the urban area and enhance community policing.
Republican leaders react to Barry Goldwater's Free Society Association with concern. Bliss says splinter groups drain funds and split the party, while Dirksen Ford and others urge caution as they weigh potential effects on 1966 campaign funding and party unity. Goldwater argues the group educates supporters and should aid the party.
A 60 mile per hour tropical storm battered Acapulco causing deroofed houses uprooted palm trees and dozens of yachts to lash the beaches. Damage runs in the thousands with no casualties reported though hotels remain intact. Yachts up to 80 feet and 30 percent of larger boats damaged as two 160+ foot radio towers toppled. Streets clogged with fallen trees and littered beaches.
The Arizona Bankers Association reports 58 bank holdups in 1964 and 1965 with an average take-home pay of 3.88 dollars per week. Sixty-three defendants received 933 years in prison, one life sentence, and the total loot was 190919 dollars. The average robber was 29, with seven shot dead and five who killed themselves when cornered.
Athens Georgia residents are told that spring browning of pine needles signals a harmless fungus infection, not tree death, per the University of Georgia extension service. The finding helps distinguish disease from normal seasonal change.
A bill in the Arizona House would limit enrollment at any state university to 22 000 with extensions for nontraditional students excluded. Seven Maricopa County Republicans sponsor the measure as legislators fret over university sizes and potential campus disturbances.
A brief meditation on Ecclesiastes 3 1 2 notes that there is a season for every purpose and that God holds the power of life and death over us. The reflection offers comfort and fear in equal measure.
An armed East German helicopter marked with insignia flew over U.S. Army sites in West Berlin, carrying a 12.7 mm gun. It crossed the border from Staaken Airport into the American sector before returning as a U.S. helicopter shadowed it.
A California state senate committee pins UC Berkeley unrest on Communist sympathizers and Kerr era policies. It accuses university officials of tolerating radical groups and opening campus doors to subversive members including Free Speech Movement leaders. The panel notes anti Semitism concerns within the John Birch Society and criticizes President Welch for remarks linking officials to conspiracies.
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