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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1965
Page
2
Marla Callas returns to the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca drawing praise from cast and audience alike. The page highlights showy performances and media attention while listing parallel items on teen ideals and a court appearance by Jack Ruby.
A restraining order halts a stockholders meeting for Producers Life Insurance Co scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. Judge Robert O. Boylston in Tucson set a 2 p.m. session to decide if the order remains in force. John R. Evans petitions intervention for all stockholders, naming National Securities Inc and Robert N. Wallace, president of National Securities and Producers, as defendants. The prior Dec 31, 1964 meeting’s merger vote is in dispute. Evans argues the reconvened session is illegal and unlawful. Earlier, management was denied a new trial to stop dissident shareholders from using proxy votes in a control battle.
Airport Director William Ralston will ask the City Council to approve expanding the east wing parking lot to add 400 spaces and building six private corporate hangars at Sky Harbor for 120000. The plan, part of a 1.2 million redevelopment program, would demolish present structures and place hangars on Air Lane east of 24th Street. revenues would cover costs. The council will also consider naming a new South Phoenix branch library Ocotillo, per W R Henderson.
Globe Miami community television relay halted by lack of funds. Public appeal for two thousand dollars under way to restore four Phoenix channel programs transmitted via relay atop a mountain south of Miami. Service ended after last night’s programs. a similar shutdown occurred last year to raise funds.
In Washington, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh urged support for the administration’s voting rights bill before a House judiciary subcommittee. He backed ending literacy tests and allowing federal examiners to register Black voters denied the franchise, arguing the goal is to maximize the vote quickly while addressing other discrimination later. Rep. William C. Cra mer criticized the bill for narrow scope beyond literacy tests.
Mexican officials refused to hospitalize Laveen's Tommy Holmes jailed a year ago in Mexico. A Mexican judge ordered prison doctors to examine him while the Arizona Farm Bureau raises funds toward a $16,000 goal to help secure his release. Holmes, jailed for issuing bank drafts to Mexican farmers, was linked to disputes with Regal Packing Co. over honoring drafts.
Special to The Gazette Tempe announces upcoming art classes with framing, watercolor, and pottery sessions for community members. Sessions start this month with beginner and intermediate levels, led by local instructors offering flexible afternoon and evening options.
Eastern news reports a refugee fleeing to the West after a jet launch from Okinawa vanished near Berlin. Details cite a F105 Thunderchief jet that departed Kadena Air Base and was heard by West Berlin police before signals faded, with authorities confirming the pilot missing.
Fifty two technicians in Guaymas Mexico prepare for Tuesday’s two man Gemini shot tracking station workers gear up to hear Gus Grissom and John Young as they orbit earth. They will monitor heartbeat respiration and voices at six minute intervals and mark return to Mercury era enthusiasm in the region.
Moscow based Tass charged Chinese students fabricated claims of mistreatment by Soviet police and doctors after a protest outside the U.S. embassy. Tass described the airport reception as a farce and asserted most students did not need hospital care, while noting coordinated Chinese protest and media coverage.
Tucson city officials review a 1963 sewer fee ordinance to close a loophole causing refunds over 10 000 dollars to district members. City Atty Calvin Webster and counsel Jay Abbey will examine the old rules ahead of Monday council session to decide changes. Local square dance clubs list venues and times across Scottsdale and Phoenix areas.
Phoenix police logged 448 calls in 24 hours ending at 10 am today including 77 traffic accidents with 12 injuries. The tally also recorded 12 burglaries one grand theft one armed robbery and one assault with a deadly weapon.
Ankara reports Turkey plans to issue Greece an ultimatum on Cyprus demanding the lifting of a blockade on Turkish Cypriot villages and to pressure Makarios to halt actions against Turkish Cypriots. Suat Hayri Urgup Ilu seeks coalition support as Greek Premier Papandreou rejects direct talks, urging UN mediation. Military activity reportedly rises on Cyprus coast.
Washington AP reports the House Ways and Means Committee draft health and Social Security bill would yield about 5 billion dollars in annual benefits. Preliminary figures break out roughly 2 billion for hospital and nursing home care, 1 billion for optional medical benefits, 400 million for Kerr Mills expansion, and 1.5 billion in higher Social Security retirement payments.
The estate of ex-King Farouk of Egypt is estimated at about 3 million dollars, with most going to his 13-year-old son Fuad. The story also notes plans for a broad financing of Social Security changes, hospital costs, and retirement increases, plus details from Farouk’s Rome lawyer Carlo d Amelia on distributions to Farouk’s children. The article touches on U S fiscal health spending and a Formosa court ruling involving local alumni.
Bangkok officials declared April 1923 as rat extermination week after a survey found at least one rat per resident in the city of two million people and two million rats.
A vintage ad urges readers up to age 80 to apply for a Golden Years last expense plan. It requests tearing out the ad and mailing name, address, and year of birth to Sunset Law in Phoenix Arizona for processing.
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