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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1968
Page
2
An editorial warns the United States may not survive as a free society if Vietnam war lessons are ignored. It laments failing leadership, civil unrest, rising crime, and economic collapse while calling for strong, principled leaders to avoid panic and demagoguery.
Two suspects stole a $2000 church collection from Our Lady Of Perpetual Help on a Sunday morning. The incident draws community condemnation and calls for return of the funds to ease consciences and support church programs.
White House and Justice Department fear Martin Luther King Jr faces a split with Carmichael as the April Poor People’s Campaign nears. Carmichael’s Leninist tactics and Black United Front endorsement push him to potential leadership if King falters, echoing the 1965 Selma power shifts and raising concerns among moderates and NAACP officials.
A Nostalgic vignette on New York police restraint during taunting at Madison Square Garden for the Bob Hope Bing Crosby show and at the New York Athletic Club track meet. The piece notes the crowd’s hostility from hippies and drifters and the police response that avoids provocation. It also references elevator statistics and a Honeywell flight helmet, highlighting contrasts between civilian life and military tech.
A carrier recounts reading Awake magazine about Jehovah's Witnesses facing persecution in Malawi for refusing a political card. The letter discusses Kennedy's stance on Johnson's renomination, criticizes campaign pushers, and argues such efforts would harm the Democratic Party and Kennedy's Senate prospects.
Known to his associates as Pops Paul Whiteman directed stars such as Bing Crosby Benny Goodman and Bix Beiderbecke. The weather has been refurbished to look nearly the way it did the night Lincoln took his wife to see the comedy Our American Cousin.
A satirical column argues Governor Reagan revealed a secret California foreign policy on Vietnam. The piece imagines Premier Ho Chi Minh overhearing and warns Californians to guard such secrets while lampooning political bravado and the peril of disclosure.
Mrs. Larry C. Ives of Granite Reef Rd was named general chairman for the 1958 Scottsdale-Bagter-Seals campaign. Scottsdale school principals Frye Kiser Flick Williams Bullington and Abbott attended a meeting of the Arizona Association of Elementary School Administrators in Yuma. Ray Davis, assistant superintendent, left Scottsdale for a convention in Indianapolis.
The piece notes McCarthy facing abuse for dissent on Vietnam policy while planning to wear the uniform, Kennedy seen as the likely 1972 candidate with strong legal and political credentials, and Nixon or Kefauver as Republican frontrunners. It argues delegates may pick a winner over the ideal choice as summer politics set in.
Jerry McElfresh is listed as managing editor for volume five issue fifteen of the publication. The snippet notes his role without additional story details.
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