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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1964
Page
1
Holbrook, Arizona 20 year old Shirley Ann Rusmak died when a car struck a guard rail and she was ejected. The state's 1964 toll began with this incident and 1963 total reached 510. National totals reported 193 highway deaths during the New Year's holiday.
A powerful winter storm swept into New England paralyzing highways and snagging power lines. Snow and ice spread from Ohio to New York and Pennsylvania with eight inches in Buffalo and nine inches in southern Ohio, while Dixie warns and southern states faced slick roads and stranded cars during the cold spell.
Continued fair with high cloudiness and little temperature change. U S Weather Observer Willard L Greene said Wednesday's high was 73 and today's low 41. Hazardous driving warnings remained in effect in Dixie areas as one of the century's greatest snowfalls melted. New Year's Day utility repairs in South Carolina followed ice damage. The 64th Mummers Parade in Philadelphia was postponed to Saturday due to snow sleet and freezing rain. Eastern storm boosted New Year traffic deaths, setting a 30 hour holiday record.
An Air Force C 124 Globemaster ditched in the Pacific en route from Japan to Hawaii after fuel loss. Survivors reported. eight crew members and one military passenger aboard. The missing plane was sighted radar west of Honolulu. search began with four engine transport wing units.
City officials reviewed new bids for an alternate garbage collection system. If low bids stand, train method equipment costs total 238000 dollars. Bids opened Tuesday. council may act at January 7 unless a special session is called earlier. Previous bids on a fork lift container system were tabled December 18 with E Z Pack's 283000 dollar equipment bid and total three year costs of 342000 per year.
President Johnson and housing head Robert Weaver discuss a comprehensive housing program aimed at a home for every man and slum cleanup. Weather delayed Weaver, with talks at the LBJ Ranch and a busy schedule including Labor Secretary Wirtz, Postmaster Gronouski, and Esther Peterson. The plan ties to a thriving construction industry and economic upswing.
A 5:44 a.m. fire at a one story nursing home in Columbia Mississippi killed three elderly men. Fire Chief Allen Dobson said the cause may be a faulty furnace. Rescue crews saved others as bitter cold and seven inches of fresh snow blanketed the area.
UPI reports Senator Barry Goldwater will reveal Friday at his Phoenix home whether he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. He meets with Arizona GOP leaders as polls since Kennedy's assassination show a possible dip in his front running status.
The Arizona Savings and Loan Association bid 327000 at a sheriff's sale on the courthouse steps for the Racquet Club, amid its years of financial trouble. The sale, postponed from 10 am, follows a prior furniture bid by the AS L receivership last month. The club remains closed with the telephone disconnected and co operator James Lofland is out of town awaiting return after a New York indictment.
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