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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1965
Page
5
A state of martial law is lifted in Geneva-on-the-Lake after two nights of rioting by vacationers. Police used night sticks to disperse a milling crowd, and 32 rioters were arrested. Five other states faced disturbances by college-aged youths during the holiday weekend.
President Johnson cleared his desk after handling executive duties. He and his wife planned a holiday drive around the 438 acre LBJ Ranch in Texas. Johnson had just appointed Livingston Merchant as U.S. executive director of the World Bank and received a briefing on the Vietnam War from staff.
An early morning blast ripped an experimental hydrogen bubble chamber in Cambridge injuring eight people, three critically. The device, run jointly by Harvard and MIT, caused a three alarm fire with no radioactivity danger confirmed. Authorities have not yet determined the cause or full extent of the damage.
Civil rights leaders in Chicago said they asked the federal government to withhold city school funds over alleged Civil Rights Act violations. Albert Raby announced a formal complaint to the U S Commissioner of Education citing discrimination by agencies receiving federal aid.
In Charlottesville French Ambassador Alphand defended noninterference while criticizing Marxism and totalitarianism. He argued new states must experience freedom themselves and that external meddling delays maturity and risks prolonging regional evils.
The Johnson administration is designing a graduated payroll withholding rate to curb underwithholding. The plan would replace the 14 percent rate with rates that rise or fall with income, aiming to reduce large year end payments and smaller refund checks caused by tax cuts and rapid withholding changes.
National Safety Council reports the Independence Day holiday traffic deaths near 440 by noon, threatening the 510 record set in 1964. The toll could top past Labor Day weekend totals as seven Arizonans die in holiday crashes and New York leads with 31 deaths nationwide. Arizona reports 266 highway fatalities in year as Scottsdale records calm weekend incidents.
A 68 year old woman suffered a mild heart attack at a Scottsdale home fire. Anna Szumiski was treated on scene and then rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital. The blaze started in a 1958 Plymouth in a carport and spread to the attic causing about $4,000 in damage to Katherine Szumiski’s home.
Two men from San Francisco Allen Herring and Pierre Gilroy were bound over to superior court for trial after a preliminary hearing. They face charges of breaking into Earl's Market and stealing a bill fold from owner Earl Shipp on June 25. Judge Harold Holcomb ruled there was probable cause.
Porfirio Rubirosa, famed playboy linked to Maria Callas and Barbara Hutton, dies in a car crash near Boulogne. The Dominican polo player and diplomat’s marriages included Danielle Darrieux and Odile Rodin, with a 1956 marriage lasting unusually long.
Final adoption of a 14 million budget for the Scottsdale School District is set for tomorrow at 7 30 p m at Tavan school. The board plans to reduce the property tax rate about 30 cents per 100 of assessed value next month aided by a new school aid bill giving the district 871 570 this fiscal year. The board also considers a bid for student lockers from Bera See Co at 5 697.
A UPI report cites unverified U.S. intelligence claiming China may have a fleet of about 30 submarines operating near Shanghai, with some surface missile capability. The assessment notes no nuclear power or underwater missile tech yet, but indicates a base for training and expansion. Navy officials also flag a possible push toward hydrogen bombs and intercontinental missiles by the mid-1970s.
Former President Harry S. Truman told about 350 people on the Truman Memorial Library lawn that the United States is the most powerful nation. Pickets from CORE and an opposing counter demonstrator protested racial housing discrimination and urban renewal.
Day to night switch brings a few showers in the eastern mountains and valley. Temperatures rise to near 113 with a low around 77. Cooler Tuesday with a high near 108 and more showers early and tonight.
UPI reports a rapid escalation of U.S. air strikes across North and South Vietnam following a major B52 mission. Bombers from Guam dropped 500 tons on Viet Cong targets near Saigon, while F104 Starfighters hit Pleiku storage sites and Navy Skyhawks probed Hanoi. Thunderchiefs attacked bridges near Vinh and bombed the Bai Duc Than staging area.
Alfred J. Buescher, chief editorial cartoonist of the Central Press Association and King Features Syndicate division, begins a new cartoon today on the Progress editorial page.
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