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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1963
Page
3
Scottsdale police plan color film tests to test drunken driving suspects. Officers will guide motorists along a marked line and perform tests while cameras capture their performance. The aim is to persuade guilty pleas by showing intoxication levels without full trials.
Mayor elect Milton Graham announced a 156 member panel of South Phoenix residents to study social and economic issues in the area south of Washington Street. He hopes to name the committee in mid January and says the talks also covered improving relations between municipal employees and citizens.
Jefferson Davis a 44 year old dockworker returned home after a groundbreaking kidney transplant from a rhesus monkey. Doctors led by Tulane surgeon Dr Keith Reemtsma said anti rejection drugs and X rays appear to overcome the body's rejection tendency. The operation, performed Nov 5 by a 12 member team, followed a prior failed monkey kidney transplant in Oct with a different patient. Davis says he feels well and wants to live a longer life.
About 400 African students demonstrated for four hours in Red Square near the Kremlin protesting the death of Astra Addo in suspicious circumstances near Kalinin. They claimed mistreatment of Africans in the Soviet Union and urged a full inquiry. police maintained the death was due to freezing in freezing temperatures with no violence reported.
Arizona Governor Paul Fannin told United Press International that the coming legislature should center on fiscal responsibility including tax equity, a state budget director, purchasing controls and job classification. He favors a cigarette tax increase and proposes school district tax equalization, repeal of a 14 year old scooter law, lay members on the state board of education, and continuation of vehicle inspections.
Purcell Joshua Jones, 47, an ex convict, was held by police in San Bernardino for carrying a pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition at a railroad station just before the Eisenhowers train arrival. No link to any assassination attempt was established as Jones claimed he was merely resting and unaware of the Eisenhowers’ plans.
Barry M. Platt 20 of Scottsdale, a Naval Academy midshipman, will discuss Operation Information on television and at several local venues during Christmas leave. He appears on KPHO TV December 29 and speaks January 7 at Lake Greenway American Legion Post and Brophy High, with Scottsdale High School possible.
Democrat J. J. Pickle defeated Republican Jim Dobbs by a wide margin in a Texas special election in President Johnsons home district. Pickle carried all 10 counties with about 65 percent of the vote, replacing Homer Thornberry who became a U S district judge in El Paso.
The White House school Caroline Kennedy attends moves to the British Embassy after Christmas. Thursday is the last White House school day for Caroline age six and her 20 classmates. Classes resume at the embassy next month.
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