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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1964
Page
5
A Scottsdale couple, Mr and Mrs Jim French, show 11 of their 12 children in a photo, with the 12th away at camp. They expect a 13th child in November, their first. The fuller story and pictures are on page 3.
Allen Benjamin Jr., 28, owner of the Baboquivari Coffee House in Scottsdale, faced a Scottsdale Justice Court appearance on a statutory reported incident. He sought release without bond, but Judge Harold Holcomb set a $1000 bond after police warned of his prior elusiveness. The case stems from a Phoenix woman who said Benjamin assaulted her after a guitar lesson and a strong drink. Two earlier charges were dropped when victims wouldn’t press charges. Benjamin is also due in Superior Court August 24 on the same matter.
James Farmer national director of the Congress of Racial Equality arrives in Phoenix for speaking engagements after addressing the Phoenix Press Club. He will speak at Abel Hall Sunday at 8 p.m. and discusses Negro housing issues in Mississippi and Harlem. He urges whites nationwide to understand Black living conditions and notes communists did not start the riots.
Coast Guard rescue aircraft circled a 12 man Sea Wolf crew after the tug caught fire 950 miles northeast of Honolulu. One crew member had second degree burns as two US cutters seven Canadian frigates and two liners moved to aid the stricken vessel bound from Portland to Honolulu with a lumber barge in tow.
Premier Nikita Khrushchev told a farm belt audience in Kazakhstan that horsemeat could boost scarce meat supplies. Pravda quoted him saying Russians who like it may eat “friendship sausage” of horse and pork, while those who cannot eat pork may eat horse meat.
A joint Paradise Valley and Scottsdale committee will submit a report and recommendation on Robert Choate’s request to rezone 0.2 acres from single family residential to resort residential between Jackrabbit Road and Lincoln Drive. Paradise Valley protests the change, fearing impact on adjacent neighborhoods. The panel has focused on revising the R4-R zoning and plans to meet Choate and landowners before presenting to planning and zoning and the city council.
Mostly fair today with late afternoon and evening clouds. Warmer temperatures with a high near 100 today and a low around 72 tonight. Sunday expected a high near 102. Weather observer Willard Greene notes today's low around 76 and yesterday's high around 94.
President Johnson denounced Goldwater and Miller for discussing nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia. He said U S forces would rely only on conventional arms to retaliate against North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Johnson announced Shriver as poverty program head and 22 conservation work camps, with McNamara kicking off an $18 million counterinsurgency aircraft program.
An 11 year old Scottsdale boy named Erick Tucker found 70 dollars on a sidewalk and turned it in to police. He waited 90 days to see if anyone would claim it and then would receive the money if it remained unclaimed.
The bottleneck on 74th Street between Holly Street and Palm Lane, a hazard for students walking to Coronado High and Tonto School, likely to be improved within three months. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Christian Reform Church plan fall construction on the site, with plans to widen and pave the street and add curbs and sidewalks.
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