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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1964
Page
4
Local leaders Scottsdale Mayor Bill Schrader and Phoenix Mayor Milt Graham ceremonially smoke a peace pipe to end annexation feuding and inter-city misunderstandings. Tensions have eased in recent months as talks begin on boundary questions water rates smog control traffic planning and regional beautification to benefit both cities.
The Maytag Zoo has added leopards and other animals but faces a severe financial crisis. Founder Robert Maytag planned a larger endowment, but his death left the zoo underfunded. The staff has been cut and funds are inadequate, urging public support to sustain the facility.
A collection of aphorisms about praise, merit, and flattery from Plutarch Johnson Shakespeare Wendell Phillips and Henry Home. The quotes contrast genuine praise with hollow flattery and suggest true praise favors the humble over the great, noting scarcity and value.
The Johnson administration confronts a hard line in the Senate as House leaders push a strong civil rights bill including public accommodations. A southern filibuster looms, and leaders hope to retain the FEP clause to force changes in the upper chamber. Johnson cannot risk backing off.
Bob Considine comments on Britain selling a fleet of buses to Castro and a tense global stance. He jokes about US Britain tensions, Cuban bus drivers, and arms stockpiles while critiquing Christmas office parties and holiday excesses in a satirical column.
Ralph McGill reflects on Pope Paul VI in Jerusalem, recalling childhood faith and a grandmother's emblematic river metaphor. He sketches the holy land’s bare hills, Crusader ruins, and Byzantine stalls, pondering the emotional landscape his visit awakens. The piece links faith, memory, and the dream of crossing the Jordan as a guiding image.
The narrator recalls a 1946 journey to Palestine after Nuremberg trials, flying to near Jerusalem aboard a two engine Ansen. He describes awe at the Holy City, ancient battles, prophets, and holy sites, noting the Crusader and Ottoman layers and asking what Pope Paul felt personally during his reception.
Virginia A. Clements thanks the paper for printing her letter from January 7 with corrections and praises the paper for printing both Ralph McGill and Barry Goldwater. She commends editorials for fairness, courage, and concern for people and wishes the paper good luck.
A humorous Bill Vaughan piece satirizes overuse of the phrase reporting in depth. The editor lambasts a cub reporter for shallow effort while quipping about obtaining a victim’s middle initial as depth. A National Aeronautics and Space Agency bulletin mocks in depth studies repeated in triplicate.
Opinion notes that government offices and business chambers push the phrase of the month through memo and speech revisions. It warns against lazy calls for action without depth and recalls how terms like materiel and crash program spread rapidly in recent history. It urges more research while keeping the critique light.
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