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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1963
Page
2
Emeritus Mayo Clinic consultant promotes bed aids such as cradles, foot lifts, folding backrests, wedge pillows, neck pillows, and hospital beds to improve comfort for invalids. He notes a mail address for device information and contrasts modern medical views with ancient beliefs about epilepsy and demon possession.
Washington reports a busy week as the House moves on tax breaks and public programs while approving a 450 million anti recession public works push in a 1.4 billion package. Senate Republicans push amendments to trim funding and consider banning lobbyist fees on the Philippine war claims bill.
Scottsdale city engineer Ken McDonald will join more than 400 water works and pollution control personnel for the 36th annual Arizona Water and Pollution Control Association meeting at the Phoenix Ramada Inn. He sits on a public works panel and chairs the elections committee. He will also attend a Nogales seminar May 8 10 hosted by the Arizona League of Cities and Towns.
Fidel Castro conferred privately with Nikita Khrushchev for two hours in the Kremlin study and later paid a courtesy call on Leonid Brezhnev. Tass described the visit as focused on economic aid, Soviet military presence, and armed attacks against Cuba, with a festive welcome and bold public displays during the Kremlin stay.
Gene Berry has been named general manager of the Executive House in Chicago. He joins from Aruba Caribbean where he led operations for three years and has over thirty years of hotel experience including hotels in Dayton Scranton and Chicago. He succeeds Joseph G. Wright who resigned and will relocate with his wife to Scottsdale.
Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman flew to Washington to report to President Kennedy on Laos crisis talks with Soviet and British leaders. He met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Lord Edward Heath, with officials saying a strong diplomatic initiative was agreed to in Moscow and Washington to preserve Laos neutrality. Heath emphasized the need for continued cooperation between the Laos conference cochairs to prevent further deterioration. The ceasefire was holding, seen as an opening for the International Control Commission to visit.
In Gadsden Alabama authorities said a late diary entry by slain postman William L Moore links a grocer to his murder during a civil rights anti segregation freedom walk. Moore wrote that two men who had questioned his beliefs warned he might be killed for them.
Speakers at a Phoenix Emancipation Proclamation centennial observance urged ongoing racial freedom efforts warning that gains are not secure. Rev Jerry Ford and Rev Moore urged unity against segregation while Dr. William Hale called education key to freedom. A murder charge was filed in Etowah County after a shooting tied to a protest letter, as SNCC said 19 volunteers would resume Moore's march to Jackson from an undisclosed start point with possible protection requests from Kennedy and Wallace.
United Press International reports nationwide temperature increases with regional highs and cooling pockets. Weather notes indicate heat and humidity patterns shaping travel and daily plans across major cities.
Margaret N. Griswold 83 of Miami Florida dies Friday April 26. Services for the Scottsdale resident will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Messinger Mortuary Chapel officiated by Rev. James L. Perry. Survived by son Gerald Griswold Vicksburg Miss and daughter Thelma Brown Miami plus nine grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Interment Green Acres Memorial Gardens Scottsdale.
Thomas Cowan seven of 2933 North Hayden Road died after a week of illness. Survived by parents Johnie and wife, a brother Clifton, a sister Beverly Ann, and grandparents Cora Bell Cowan and Thomas and Rosy Borders of Phoenix. Services set for tomorrow at Messenger Mortuary with Rev. James R. Blackwell officiating. Interment at Green Acres Memorial Gardens in Scottsdale.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy hinted that Democrats expect a Rockefeller Goldwater ticket in 1964. He said a GOP mix of Rockefeller and Goldwater could win in Massachusetts as the nation watches the state’s 1964 vote. Kennedy, Massachusetts senator, noted Rockefeller and Goldwater as leading presidential possibilities.
The body of Erich O Muschinske aged 74 who lived with his son John at 8622 E Cambridge will be taken to Merrill Wisconsin for interment. He moved to Scottsdale from Merrill a month ago and is survived by two sons John and Phillip of Sierra Madre California and three daughters Clestine Greer Erskine Minn Patricia Prahlow St Louis Mo and Rosmary Greer Stuart Minn along with 15 grandchildren two brothers and a sister. Arrangements are by Messinger Mortuary.
Mr and Mrs Robert Nadeau welcome a girl on April 28 at 1403 E Eighth St. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Swengel welcome a girl on April 29 at 1424 Stanley P. Mr and Mrs Thomas Mayer welcome a boy on April 29 at 7350 E Roosevelt.
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