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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1963
Page
2
Emeritus Mayo Clinic consultant offers practical foot care tips and warns that a billion dollar crash program for cancer is unlikely to succeed. He recalls his research-foundation experiences and notes medical schools fear losing teachers to laboratories as NIH directors strive to spend funds wisely.
Lowell D. Skinner, a former U S Army corporal from Akron Ohio who defected after Korea says his nine years in Red China left him disillusioned He describes Mao Tze tung s great leap forward as chaotic and inefficient noting limits on studying traveling and changing jobs as conditions worsened after 1958 He recalls a backyard steel furnace in Tsinan during the leap era and criticizes agricultural output under communist policy.
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Lydia Edwards 44 of Scottsdale will be held in St Louis. She was killed when her car overturned near Deming New Mexico. Her four year old daughter Sandra was unhurt. Survivors include husband Edwin and extended family in St Louis Scottsdale. Mrs Edwards native of St Louis moved there six years ago.
John Boyer a 14 year old from La Mirada California is cleared to race in Akron after officials ruled his California built racer met residency requirements despite testers finding a metal nose and extra rear axle supports contrary to the 1963 rule book. Arizona and California officials had protested the construction.
President Kennedy met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and top aides to map strategy for Moscow talks with Khrushchev. He supported Berlin guarantees in any non aggression pact and urged NATO to consider Khrushchev’s proposal. Rusk heads to Moscow to sign the limited test ban treaty, with further talks planned with Khrushchev and Gromyko.
Skopje, Yugoslavia faced a week after a catastrophic earthquake that killed an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 people and left the city’s ruins to be cleared by bulldozers and dynamite. Rescue efforts continue as a new Skopje must be built elsewhere.
Arizonans covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act will see the minimum wage rise to 1.25 per hour for 40 hours starting Sept. 3. The old rate is 1.51 for 44 hours. Workers employed since 1961 will receive time and a half for hours over 44 per week, a provision not yet in effect.
Robert H. Dudley assistant business manager of the Employment Security Commission received two months off as the ESC reviews printing contracts. Dudley allegedly got $800 in personal loans from James V. Tinney linked to Par Press Inc. The Seymours, new Par Press owners, sue Tinney alleging overcharging and kickbacks to state officials. Authorities in the attorney general and Maricopa county offices are probing. Felix Gordon and Stephen Connors said more information would follow.
In Sudbury Ontario a restaurant attached to a service station was demolished by an explosion of unknown origin late Thursday. Six bodies were recovered, one person is critically injured, five in fair condition, and two others suffered minor injuries. Names of the deceased were not released.
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