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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1970
Page
2
Voters approved funds for a service center a year ago but site choices and rising costs delay construction. Critics urge using North site land and blame inflation for shrinking bond value. Delays affect the new high school and elementary remodeling as bids exceed estimates. The business office and architects share responsibility.
The article notes guarded U S backed peace proposals from Egypt and Israel as a first step amid pressures from hawkish factions and Arab states. It emphasizes Egypt’s domestic and Soviet pressure, Israel’s need for security guarantees, and Secretary Rogers’ role in pushing talks toward broader Middle East peace and world stability.
Washington story notes R Douglas Richards shifted from opposing federal funding of the arts to backing a major NEA increase. He joins Nancy Hanks as a special assistant and supports a bill to double NEA funding to 40 million for the current year and 180 million over three years. He cites broader federal arts outlays by state, Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, and other agencies.
In a dramatic scenario the text portrays Premier Golda Meir proposing open surrender as Arab nations and Palestinian groups demand conquest. The piece depicts US pressure toward negotiations and a shifting Middle East landscape with memory of the Al Fatah and FFP leaders: Al and George.
Scottsdale reader Mrs. Floyd W. Goulooze thanks the paper for a beautiful photograph and write-up about Judie’s wedding. She praises accuracy and compliments the staff, noting readers admired the envelope message and expressing appreciation for a job well done.
Jim Michener recalls how Tales of the South Pacific launched his literary career and spurred a tourist boom to French Polynesia. He reveals the 1944 Navy assignment, Macmillan edits, and Kenneth MacGowan's push that led to the hit musical and later novels like Hawaii and The Bridges at Toko-Ri. He notes The Drifters coming in May and a move to Kent University to study a campus tragedy.
W H president rates a Texas ranch hunting car as the most exotic. It featured a folded windshield a front-fender seat open roof a gun rack a front wench to pull it from mud and leather interior. Mansfield News Journal notes his starting salary at 14000 and admission to practice in New York and Connecticut. Syracuse Herald Journal comments on charlatans praising foreign dictators while desecrating freedom.
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