Progress Drops Color Comics Section After Survey
The Progress ends its color comics feature started in September due to low reader interest despite an extensive gender survey. The costly color pages will be discontinued with this issue.
22 Apr 1967
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1967
Page
1
The Progress ends its color comics feature started in September due to low reader interest despite an extensive gender survey. The costly color pages will be discontinued with this issue.
Open housing protests move into downtown Louisville as demonstrators urge an economic boycott and urge Negro residents to stop spending until a fair housing law is passed. In Jakarta, guards at the Chinese Embassy repelled over a thousand Indonesian youths armed with weapons amid deteriorating relations with Peking since 1965.
A pacifist group led by Lord Bertrand Russell cannot locate a courtroom for its war crimes trial against U S action in Vietnam. French President De Gaulle refuses to permit the mock trial anywhere in France, complicating the effort.
Saigon Hanoi Radio says 180 civilians were killed this week in Haiphong raids. The broadcasts claim more than 160 civilians died in earlier attacks and note continuing U S air activity with 118 missions flown, targeting rail yards northwest of Hanoi.
H Hickin a 60 year old Laveen resident jailed for unauthorized practice of law was freed by the Arizona Supreme Court pending a habeas hearing. He claims wrongful conviction by a Maricopa County superior court jury. Separate two car crashes in Arizona claim two lives, including 15 year old Juan Molina near Patagonia and 24 year old Daniel Murphy in East Phoenix.
America’s Surveyor 3 robot prospector gouged a trench at least six inches deep in the Moon’s Sea of Storms topsoil. A second furrow followed the soil sampler’s first test, with a shadowed bottom preventing exact depth confirmation while a JPL spokesman cited possible depths up to about 23 inches.
U S military says nearly 10 000 reinforcements are rushed to northern South Vietnam as two major communist offensives threaten. B52 strikes hit rail yards in the Red River Valley while Da Nang area clashes rise in intensity with Viet Cong. North Vietnam claims a plane shot down and Haiphong raids kill civilians.
Greek army arrests top leaders and thousands of leftists in a Friday coup. King Constantine’s backing unclear as Lt Gen Gregory Gpandikakis heads a military government. Paralyzed transport, closed schools, martial law, and guarded parliament mark a tense, slow return to normal.
National Guardsmen, deputies and volunteers search Oak Lawn Belvidere and nearby areas after a series of tornadoes left 40 deaths and hundreds missing. Officials estimate 1,600 injured as crews guard the shattered towns and recover victims from schools and stores.
A tornado hit Belvidere Illinois near Chicago as students at the new Belvidere High School fled outside toward buses. The storm caused buses to collide with buildings and the library and cafeteria suffered shattered plate glass and injuries. Surviving driver Ted Kefer recalled footprints of blood on the floor.
Moscow reports say the Soviet Union will launch two new generation manned spacecraft within 48 hours carrying four cosmonauts to match the U S in the space race. Veterans include Pvel Belyayev Konstanton Peoktistov and Valery Bykovsky.
UAW delegates approve authorizing President Reuther to secede from AFL-CIO amid charges of complacency and stagnation. Reuther urges unity if possible but says the union may strike out alone to stay on the march.
Twenty candidates for junior rodeo queen compete this morning at the Jaycee arena. The field narrows to six, with a queen and two princesses to be named at tonight’s dinner. The winners reign over the junior rodeo in early May. Judges are Mrs. Sheila Spitz, Jim Spero and Dan McKinney.
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