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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1970
Page
2
The school board faced 25 percent higher bids for additions than two years earlier, forcing elimination of science classrooms at two schools. The editorial criticizes the business office for poor planning, delays, and calls for tighter controls and firm construction deadlines for architects.
A camping trip with grandparents and six others ends in disaster as Bud Gibbs leaves the group to seek help. Four bodies are found with likely five dead as heat and fatigue hindered survival. The Arizona desert’s dangers spur calls for better rescue coordination and water planning.
Washington report jokes about using bumper stickers to judge a person. Rogers claims car decals reveal politics, status, religion, education, and family dynamics, with a Harvard decal signaling a contrast between father and son and generation gap.
New York voters see Rockefeller and Goldberg in a tight governor race. Rockefeller reels in money and organization to close a 15 point lead seen by Quayle polls. Efforts target Harlem and black communities with up to 1 million dollars. a bid to win Jewish and labor support via ethnic outreach and a Civil Service Independents ballot line.
AFL CIO President George Meany urges Congress to pass a $2 minimum wage law, arguing the current approach harms jobless low earners during a slumping economy. He warns higher rates would force layoffs and notes wage-push by organized labor raises prices, harming those on low wages.
Arthur Hoppe recalls a surge of male liberation as riots erupt in 1970 led by Benny Freedman and the Men’s Liberation Front. He notes backlash, gender roles, workplace disparities, and a pivotal TV address by the First Lady arguing for democratic process despite ongoing resistance.
Washington report notes teachers and college leaders sharply denounce Alexander Heard's Vanderbilt study as tendentious twaddle. Critics including Maurice Cranston Lawrence Wanless Ernest Wilkinson Sidney Hook Edward Banfield Hardin Jones condemn linking riots to Vietnam and urge Nixon ignore the Heard recommendations.
General Robert E. Lee urged national harmony after the Civil War in a 1865 letter. He sought inclusion in amnesty terms, noting the war's end and questions with the North resolved, and said he had not received a presidential decision. He argued his recommendation and actions would not harm the former Confederate president.
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