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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1968
Page
7
A convention adapts to intense lighting by adding new offsetting measures. Organizers deploy cooling devices and revised stage layouts to keep attendees comfortable while maintaining visual impact.
A bomb shattered the Canadian National Tourist office on Fifth Avenue injuring no one and damaging nearby shops. Police and FBI probe linked incidents across the city as security checks increased near consulates. A separate Bronx blast wounded a police officer’s daughter. another firehouse threat was defused after two girls offered a jewel box bomb.
Gila County sheriff's deputies with volunteers continued a search for 38 year old Jimmy Martinez of Phoenix who disappeared Monday evening while fishing near Hell's Hole Lake 29 miles east of Roosevelt Lake. Civil Air Patrol planes and ground crews including four wheel drive vehicles and horsemen aided the effort with several friends joining at night. Martinez, a former state middleweight boxing champion, was separated from a party of four fishermen while hiking to the lake.
The analysis shows a hand where East West vulnerable, with North holding AQT1064 and South KQJ97, leads and ruffs guide the play. South must manage ruffs and trumps to avoid losing the diamond, using safe ruffs and timely spade entries to force outs while West signals with diamonds.
The city council named Allen Lessig to the parks and recreation board to replace John Thomas who is moving. Gail Shanks and Wayne Farley were reappointed to three year terms. Nina Helms was named to the city library board.
Paris reports more than 20 percent loss in France’s gold and foreign exchange reserves as the Bank of France discloses a decline of $1.322 billion since mid May. The frantic drain brings reserves from about $6.4 billion, prompting drastic government steps to prevent franc devaluation. The franc near five to the dollar and pressure on the pound rises on the London market.
Dr Ralph Bauer of UNC and Rene Veyrunes of Paris finished a six day deep dive in a Comex diving bell 1198 feet below the Mediterranean surface near Marseille. Both surfaced in good condition and resumed normal activities.
George Wallace faced hecklers at a Radisson Hotel fundraiser and a 5 000 to 6 000 crowd at an auditorium. Police used nightsticks and Mace after a staged assault, injuring a photographer and dispersing about 40 demonstrators as chants of sieg heil echoed. Wallace was escorted out amid security.
It was a quiet day in Scottsdale for the Rural Fire Department Wednesday. Firemen reported only two small brush fires and a smoke report in a house with no property loss. Brush fires occurred at Scottsdale and Chaparral Rds. and Scottsdale Rd and Shea Blvd. Crews checked a smoke report at 7735 E Earls Dr and found nothing.
Four Phoenix juveniles aged 12 to 14 had a murder charge dropped by Juvenile Court Judge Thomas Tang who ruled the complaint refiled after an earlier dismissal was improper. Deputy public defender Brash argued double jeopardy, while county attorney Berger said he would appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court. The youths had previously been found guilty of auto theft.
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