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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1966
Page
2
Progress editorial urges citizens to review the Scottsdale long range land use map by Higner and associates. It promotes neighborhood defined concepts guiding roads sewers and services while stressing public input to gain support and shape the city’s future.
A reflection on how the Santa legend survives despite modernization and missteps. The author cites a judge hauled Santa, a shopping center Lady Santa, and a rocket Santa, arguing over commercialization and the need to protect children’s wonder.
In Washington a broad accord forms on large scale federal money for states and cities. Rep. Melvin Laird warns current local finance is insufficient amid rising crime and welfare rolls while Secretary Gardner cautions against making states mere branches of a powerful central government. Both urge strengthened federal support with careful management to avoid eroding state and local autonomy.
A former New York trooper now in Scottsdale writes that Chief Nemetz has cleaned house, deserves credit, and should be kept in place. He notes the paper’s policy on letters, urges peace, and signs with hometown details while requesting his address be withheld if desired.
A correspondent recalls a dinner in Seoul with a Kisaeng girl who serves the male guest, then veers to speculation on Bobby Kennedy and Johnson in 1968. The piece shifts to Tokyo hotel notes, Japan's leather of delicate socks, and a humorous take on Sumo and golf in Japan.
Ralph McGill discusses Oscar Lewis and his works La Vida and Sanchez, analyzing the concept of a culture of poverty. He argues poverty endures through generational patterns within marginalized communities, confining them in a self perpetuating system. The piece contrasts lived experience of Appalachian whites and urban poor with the broader societal neglect.
A satirical tale set in West Whining where a xenophobic campaign against Viet-Naman guerrillas collapses into a price war. A shady deal with Mr Hoo Hee sparks a plan to buy and ship thousands of guerrillas, draining funds until Gen Hoo Dat Don Dar exposes the ruse. The secretary’s brinkmanship ends in bankruptcy and a grim reminder that human life is priceless.
The fragment shows a Scottsdale newspaper masthead listing Jonathan Marshall as Editor and Publisher, with Jerry McElfresh as Managing Editor and W.B. Doc Wright as Assistant Publisher. It notes second class postage paid at Cotdale Arizona and references page 4 Vol VI No 260 dated December 8, 1966.
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