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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1961
Page
2
A Montevideo professor was fatally shot by a lone gunman outside a rear door used after Cuba’s Ernesto Guevara departed. Police cited seven shots fired into a crowd. one victim, Arbelio Ramires, 45, was among those escorting Guevara.
New York UPI reports a drop in newspaper circulation for the first seven months of 1961 from the record highs reached in the same period in 1960, according to the American Newspaper Publishers Association ANPA.
Considerable cloudiness continues through Saturday with a 60 percent chance of thundershowers today and 70 percent Saturday. Temperatures near 102 forecast for highs, lows around 78 Saturday morning. Thunder chances are scattered today across north and west areas and more widespread southeast, moving to central and east regions by Saturday. Continuous warmth with little temperature change. Temperatures and precipitation cover the 24 hour period ending at 4 am.
The Navy will add 42 ships to Atlantic and Pacific fleets and expand jet fighters, anti-submarine planes, and ship-borne missiles as part of a Kennedy era buildup. It includes two aircraft carriers Constellation and Antietam and raises total ships to 861 with 382 warships and 479 support vessels.
City Manager Bob McNutt chaired an informal executive session with council members to review progress in lawsuits over a former garbage dump site south of Princess Road. John Savoy, attorney for plaintiff Jewell Nigh, attended. no action was taken. The matter will be discussed publicly next Tuesday. Nigh seeks 30000 dollars in damages for water pollution and aims to foreclose on an unauthorized city contract to purchase the property, with the city having spent 10000 dollars.
Wanda Beth Crosier an 11 year old in Indio California attached a loving note to her dog Pudge after a car accident and the poundmaster who read the note arranged for the humane society to cover the veterinarian bill. After two weeks of care Pudge is to be returned to Wanda.
A young woman Barbara Ann Baker admitted killing Donald J. Brown in Phoenix as their car paused by a boulevard sign. She said her brother Francis Baker and Virginia Blethen helped dump the body four miles northwest of Florence Junction after a prior street robbery. Police found a .38 cal pistol and a 9 mm in their Florence apartment. Brown’s body was found by highway workers off U.S. 60-70, with investigators linking it to the suspects.
State Supreme Court Justice John P. Donohoe ordered Newburgh to stop enforcing 12 of 13 points in a new welfare code. City Manager Joseph Mitchell plans an appeal. The code would require able bodied relief recipients to work, issue vouchers for food, and cut welfare for mothers with illegitimate children.
New York Governor Rockefeller appeals to Republican House members to back President Kennedy's five year 8.8 billion dollar foreign aid plan. He sends telegrams as strategy talks continue and the Senate keeps the long term feature despite a 51 45 vote to resist reducing the loan term.
Maricopa County plans to pay Scottsdale 1.50 per prisoner per day for jail care at the Scottsdale City Jail. The city estimates feeding and care costs. currently meals for county and city prisoners come from Werner Meyer at 60 cents per meal, two meals daily. Police say jail use won’t overload facilities or need more staff, and the contract follows a defeated county building bond issue in Scottsdale.
Arizona National Guard Governor's Day will be held Saturday with the governor as guest. About 2,000 infantry will parade before the governor and awards will be presented. A precision drill features Co. E Yuma's Second Battle Group. Combat equipment includes jeep-mounted 106 recoilless rifles M-41 tanks and assault guns. A four day field problem follows the parade with a day of rest proclaimed Sunday.
A federal grand jury under the Sherman Antitrust Act indicted Chas. Pfizer & Co John E. McKeen American Cyanamid Lederle divisions Wilbur G Malcolm Bristol-Myers Frederic N. Schwartz and two co conspirators Olin Mathieson and Upjohn for conspiring to restrain trade monopolize and monopolize sales of the broad spectrum antibiotics aureomycin tetramycin and tetracycline amid claims of high prices.
A free public film on nerve gas will be shown at 8 p.m. tonight in the hospitality room of the Western Savings building. Sponsored by the Anti-Communist Study Club of Scottsdale, the program discusses a deadly chemical warfare agent developed by German scientists in World War II and reportedly perfected by the Russians.
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