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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1964
Page
2
The piece urges drivers to yield to police cars ambulances and fire engines as they respond to emergencies. It warns of dangerous consequences from ignoring sirens especially with summer approaching when windows are up and air conditioning on and calls for voluntary compliance or police enforcement to reduce traffic hazards.
Gov Brown urges a legislative study of California divorce laws linking divorce to rising relief costs and juvenile delinquency. He cites ANC expenditures of 192.5 million in 1962 and argues data could reveal savings and public interest implications in custody and child support matters.
Rowland Evans describes a tense Southern mood as Congress weighs civil rights legislation. Savannah and Atlanta show cautious progress toward integration amid private-sector resistance and white backlash. In Mississippi and Alabama threats from Klan activity and Nazi-style propaganda raise fears of delayed federal action and renewed conflict.
Roscoe Drummond argues that American opinion is crumbling on the Vietnam war policy, urging President Johnson to articulate a clear stake and rally leadership. He suggests public persuasion and a potential invitation for South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh to address Congress.
Editor's Mailbag endorses Rev. Lee J. Smallsreed Jr for the Scottsdale Board of Education vacancy. He is qualified by training and degrees from Western Reserve and Yale, with children in the district. The letter urges public support to three officials and the editor.
United Press International quotes Secretary of State Dean Rusk pledging continued U S support for South Vietnam until combatants are defeated and peace secured. The report also covers Senator Richard Russell stating southern opponents plan a lengthy debate on the civil rights bill, arguing it will destroy more rights than it creates.
Ralph McGill notes that between 1950 and 1960 employment grew most in Florida California Nevada and Arizona with 40 percent plus increases. Georgia and Louisiana rose 10 to 20 percent while Arkansas Mississippi lost. Western states led gains. east of the Mississippi only Connecticut matched the pace of the West.
Arizona earns top rating for job growth while the pace of employment change slows in some Southern states with weaker industrial bases. The piece argues mobility is essential for production workers and managers as postwar shifts push workers to new opportunities. It notes tech-driven demand and unemployment rise, citing automation insights.
Maj. Gen. Melvin J. Maas U.S. Marine Corps dies after a storied career across three wars. Maas served in World War II under Halsey and Fletcher, fought with MacArthur in New Guinea, commanded Awase Air Base at Okinawa, and later entered Congress from St Paul in 1946. He became blind in the Korean War but returned to service and later worked for the Reserve Forces Policy Board in the Pentagon. He celebrated his unique fate with humor about serving without sight.
The text depicts Mel Maas a war veteran who faced blindness with courage and led multiple organizations. It notes his roles as chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped and other groups, his Bethesda Naval Hospital visit about a decade ago, and his work on a book for the newly blinded. It includes an anecdote about his son during a dinner and Maas's reflections on helping the blind.
The BBC apologized after DJ Judith Chalmers played a record request for Bryn Williams, a British soldier in Germany, not knowing he had been killed in a car crash last week.
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