Scottsdale Progress 1963 Editorial Policy and Rates
The Scottsdale Progress announces its pledge to report news without twisting facts, labeling editorial opinion, and addressing important issues. It lists six evenings per week subscriptions, annual Arizona and out-of-state rates, and motor route carrier pricing.
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Death Of A Baby And The Price Of The Presidency
An essay notes the public price of the presidency, citing Patrick Kennedy’s infant death as a shared national sorrow. It argues leaders lose privacy, while leaders’ private grief remains hidden behind public roles. The piece reflects on humanity within political symbols.
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Art and Politics and the Debate Over Modern Art
A brief look at shifting Soviet policy on creative expression and Soviet style social realism. The piece notes American art critics’ view of abstract and non-objective art as decadent and parallels Soviet rhetoric, suggesting critics against modern art risk being labeled Communists.
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America
Watch For Children As June To August Bring Traffic Risk
The National Safety Council warns that school bell signals danger from traffic accidents for children. In Scottsdale, injuries occur in June July and August as youths on bikes ride. Drivers must keep control, obey speed limits, and be vigilant for children and bicycles during all periods.
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World tensions loom over Mao’s atomic future
Bob Considine remarks from Hawaii on Mao Zedong and a nuclear future. He parodies reactions from Nehru Khrushchev Wilson and Castro while noting the Mao regime’s lack of a deliverable atomic weapon and China’s reliance on Soviet oil. He warns the radioactive fallout harms the world’s air envelope.
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Propaganda era fears and Pearl Harbor reflections
A nostalgic column on U S military escalation from Pearl Harbor to the nuclear age. It contrasts past battleships with modern missile cruisers and radar domes, pondering China’s propaganda risks and the world’s overkill arsenal. The piece surveys dramatic tech shifts since 1941 and the defense industry’s rise.
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Test ban treaty poses risks in US Soviet ties
Senate members debate a partial nuclear test ban and its effects on East Germany and Cuba. Senator Dirksen warns automatic treaty accession could force recognition of East Germany as a state and Cuba’s potential underground tests, raising questions about the treaty’s practicality and whether it truly promotes peace.
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Editor's Mailbag On School District Reforms And Staffing
The letter critiques the 1956 survey by Drs Abraham McGrath Wochner and Baker and notes slow filling of key posts such as director of curriculum. It lists new administrators added this year, including numerous directors and a P.E. chief, and urges voters to elect a capable school board member before deadlines.
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Willard Abraham
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Baker
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Spotted fawn postcard unites nation across regions
Bill Vaughan muses on national unity amid factional divides and highlights a simple object. He notes four different postcards of a spotted fawn mailed from Indiana Minnesota Nevada Michigan show a universal appeal. The cards sometimes carry only the word fawn or a greeting, a playful pun on deer.
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Little Fawn Postcard Unifying Us Across a Nation
The piece praises the little fawn postcard as a comforting symbol of unity across diverse U S landscapes from city canyons to village life and desert heat to ocean breezes. It argues that imagining traveling readers fosters shared basic experiences amid concerns about national unity.
Nuclear test ban hvadged by McGill amid world danger
Washington remarks by Ralph McGill warn that atmospheric nuclear testing has poisoned air soil and water across the globe with strontium-90 entering plants water and the food chain He calls for a symbolic and hopeful but fragile test ban to limit further damage while noting the dangers may endure or widen into war through world powers and future conflicts.
Test Ban Pact Sees Modest Hope Amid Vast Arms Growth
The piece surveys weapon advances from early 20th century to the nuclear age and foresees either a global test ban or war. It notes current arsenals, fears a radioactive blanket over continents, and predicts treaty shifts as powers realign with NATO SEATO and the Warsaw Pact amid changing alliances.
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Civil rights drift delays Congress as strike looms
Doris Fleeson notes Congress backs Kennedy railroad bill more than civil rights reforms, with bargaining exhausted and no admissible solution in sight. A looming August 29 strike deadline risks a massive civil rights demonstration, prompting talk of moving the strike date earlier.
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Congress Delays Rail Decision Amid Civil Rights Tensions
Congress puts aside a rail decision as civil rights plans face delay. Labor and management reportedly balk at the Kennedy plan, while White House and supporters clash over priorities. With an August 20 deadline, a railroad settlement may still be dodged amid broader legislative gridlock.
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