Floridians invited to Scottsdale for warm up
The Scottsdale Chamber invites the Florida Chamber and its visitors to escape winter for sun and heat. John Wise promotes Scottsdale as a warm destination and even uses a bathing suit photo by singer Miss January Jones to attract Florida tourists.
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Scottsdale
Henry Coleman
Florida
Chamber of Commerce
Dayona Beach
Fla
Wise
Daytona Area
Florida Chamber
January Jones
Chamber
Flagstaff
Miss Jones
Mountain Shadows Resort
Reds Film Abolition Project Declared Superior Documentary
HUAC backs Operation Abolition calling the film superior despite attacks in the Scottsdale Phoenix area by the John Birch Society. The 900 page report says Communists sought to discredit the film while noting broad audience approval and impact on awareness of subversion targeting youths.
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Scottsdale- Phoenix
American Civil Liberties Union
House
UN American Activities Committee
Arizona
John Birch Society
Scottsdale
San Francisco
Kennedy orders new divisions as guards released this year
Two national guard divisions will be released from active duty this year after President Kennedy ordered activation of two new army divisions to replace them. The 32nd Wisconsin and 49th Texas will go inactive for several months before the first armored division and the fifth infantry division take their places. Astronaut John Glenn remains in Cape Canaveral quarters as NASA delays the first manned orbital flight to January 23.
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Palm Beach
Fla
National Guard
Kennedy
32Nd
Wisconsin
Texas
First Armored
Fifth Infantry
U.S
United Press International Today
America
John Glenn
Cape Canaveral
Cape
Arlington
Virginia
Portugal Threatens to Exit United Nations Over Goa
Prime Minister Salazar told Portugal's national assembly the country may leave the United Nations in protest of the UN's failure to halt India's attack on Goa. He called the UN "not only useless but actively harmful."
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Lisbon
Portugal
United Nations
Salazar
National Assembly
U.N
Goa
Laos peace talks paused as co chairmen seek prince accord
Geneva meetings of the 14 nation Laos peace conference are postponed while co chairmen confer with a feuding prince. Neutralist leader Prince Souvanna Phouma travels to Geneva after an Laos coalition attempt with two other princes failed. He asks Britain and Russia to mediate a new three prince reconciliation.
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Geneva
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Britain
Russia
Postal Income Climbs for Scottsdale in 1961
The Scottsdale post office reported 1961 receipts totaling 615 308.04, up 21 percent from 1960. Postmaster C C Wilson noted growth since 1951 when receipts were 48 620. The office now employs 97 people, up from eight a decade ago, with a temporary station to open mid January at 1738 South Scottsdale Road in Papago Shopping Center and a permanent site planned for 7th Street and McDowell by May 1 to relieve Sunset Street station.
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Scottsdale
C.C. Wilson
Wilson
S. Scottsdale Rd
Papago
Pilot Rescued From Treetop After 10 Hour Hang
UPI report from Picayune Mississippi says Coast Guard helicopter rescued Capt. Charles B. Stratton, 32, who bailed from a stricken U2 and hung in a swamp tree for more than 10 hours. He was flown to Keesler Air Force Base and is apparently all right.
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Picayune, Miss
UPI
Coast Guard
Charles B. Strattin
Pearl River
Francis Gary Powers
Russia
Keesler Air Force Base
Stratton
Another Florida Freeze Another Florida Freeze
Florida resort owners and citrus farmers brace for another freeze as temperatures dip to 38 in Miami and as low as 26 expected in northern Florida and the south coast. The citrus commission rejects an embargo on frost damaged fruit shipments while the eastern freeze reaches 14 above in Richmond and near zero in northern New England.
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Florida
Miami
Florida Citrus Commission
Richmond
New England
Pacific Northwest
Montana
Parada Del Sol Opens With Coronation And Bank Mock Hold Up
Scottsdale's 8th Parada Del Sol begins this weekend with a coronation at 2 30 p m on Saturday at Scottsdale Road and Main Street. A staged hold up of the First National Bank at Scottsdale and Main will occur at 1 30 p m before the coronation.
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Scottsdale
Clanton
Scottsdale Rd
Main St
Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce
First National Bank
Scottsdale and Main
Paul Wheeler
Parada
Phoenix Sets Annual Record for Building Permits
Phoenix reports a new yearly high in building permit valuations totaling 115,375,448 across 14,496 permits. August led with 14,224,710 in valuation while December was the weakest month at 6,069,338.
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Phoenix
UPI
Combat Soldier Asks For It
Former Army Maj. Reuben Kidd, survivor of four years of combat, leads United States Divorce Reform Inc to press for changes in alimony, community property, and child custody by lobbying and letter writing. He cites personal divorce loss as motive and reports supporters across several states and the canal zone.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Army
Reuben Kidd
California
United States
Nevada
Michigan
Wisconsin
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Panama Canal Zone
Kidd
USDA
Albert Leads Democratic Leader Race In House
Congressman Carl Albert of Oklahoma appears set to lead for Democratic floor leader with rival Richard Bolling of Missouri dropping out. Bolling is expected to announce his withdrawal today.
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Washington
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
House
Richard Bolling
Missouri
Katanga Assembly Fails To Act On Kitona Accord
In Elisabethville the Katanga national assembly met to vote on the Kitona agreement ending Katanga secession but the seven minute session broke up without action. Elisabethville, Congo.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Kennedy to Visit Mexico Amid Cuba Cold War Shift
President Kennedy reinstates plans to visit Mexico indicating a shift in Mexican policy toward Cuba. An invitation from President Adolfo Lopez Mateos was accepted without a date set, announced in Palm Beach and Mexico City.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Mexico
Cuba
Mexico City
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Russians Reject Protests Over Berlin Border Traffic
Berlin dispatch reports the Soviet side rejected two U.S. protests about German Communist interference with traffic across the East-West Berlin border. An American spokesman called the Soviet reply, sent December 23, wholly unsatisfactory.
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Berlin
U.S
Western espionage plots surface in press conferences and KGB plan
The Hungarian Information Office staged a press conference in Budapest with four young men claiming defection from U S spy ranks. They described training in jungle warfare and covert methods. Earlier, a 1959 Moscow KGB plan to prove West Berlin as a spy hub faltered amid expulsions and defections. The piece also notes a 6 percent parcel post rate hike request and catalog increase by the Post Office.
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Washington
Ussr
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Hungarian Information Office
Budapest
U. S
Ferenc Zsofka
No. 77
Central Intelligence Agency
Moscow
Committee of State Security
KGB
Genera Gribanov
Gribanov
West Berlin
Soviet Bloc
German Federal Republic
Karlshorst
East Berlin
Berlin
Poland
Khrushchev
Warsaw
Prague
Switzerland
Belgium
France
Argentina
Goldwater Defends Congress Against Tax Authority
Senator Barry Goldwater spoke at Kiva Elementary School urging Congress to retain tax power and not delegate authority to the president. He criticized the Walker incident, defended the general, and addressed extremism, the UN, Monroe Doctrine, foreign aid, tariffs, Peace Corps, and automation unemployment.
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Goldwater
Arizona
Congress
Kennedy
Parent-Teachers Association of
Kiva
E. McDonald
Geeeral Walker
Walker
United Nations
Adlai Stevenson
U.S
Cuba
Peace Corps
Local Weather Report From Kiva School
Weather compiled by Kiva School eighth graders notes yesterday's high 63 and this morning's 39. Barometric pressure 30.0 steady. Sunrise 7 33 a m Sunset 5 33 p m Forecast fair skies with rising temperatures. Today's high about 71 and tomorrow's low around 39.
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Kiva
Notice to Subscribers Scottsdale Daily Progress delivery
Notice advises subscribers to contact their carrier or salesman if the Scottsdale Daily Progress is not received at a reasonable hour and announces a special delivery service from the office up to p.m. Please phone for assistance.
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Scottsdale Daily Progress
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