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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1964
Page
2
Scottsdale Progress editorial pledges to report facts straight and meet important issues head on. It emphasizes impartial presentation, accurate reporting, and avoiding opinion shaping in a public newspaper.
A long review of the Citizens Advisory Committee in Sentisdale shows high early hopes for an impartial panel guiding planning and civic studies. Under Mayor Woudenberg and ex mayor Schrader, few concrete actions followed and leaders call for fresh direction, clearer goals and city support.
A Tim ats psychologist ranks professions by anxiety. Newspaper editors and writers top the list, followed by Navy underwater demolition experts in second. University administrators are named as the least anxious group.
Marquis Childs describes Mississippi leaders notably former Gov. Ross Barnett fueling racial strife. The piece notes hardline groups like the Association for the Preservation of the White Race and revived Klan, Gov. Paul Johnson’s cautious stance, and federal pressure as Mississippi grapples with integration and federal marshals at Oxford amid a national crisis.
The piece discusses Mississippi's civil rights struggle with federal opposition, resistance from state factions, and the threat of violence by Ku Klux Klan influence in the southwest counties. It notes white student volunteers, integration tensions, and the state’s cultural backdrop as William Faulkner’s legacy looms in reflection of upheaval.
Brussels report by Bob Considine recounts European readers’ caricature of Barry Goldwater as a Western hero type. The piece profiles Goldwater’s family roots, personal habits, and hobbies, noting his fitness, flying hours, and fondness for wilderness photography. It also highlights Brussels Grand Place and Gothic Town Hall as a dramatic counterpoint to political mythmaking.
A trivia puzzle lists six figures from literature politics and aviation. Answers include Thomas Mann, James Oglethorpe, Nathanael Greene, Daniel Webster, Pearl Buck, and Igor Sikorsky. Spelled downward the surnames reveal the humorist who died with Wiley Post in Alaska.
UPI reports that Beijing is smuggling explosive anti Russian propaganda into the Soviet Union aimed at inflaming discontent with the Moscow regime. Agents are said to be mainly Central Asian ethnic Uzbeks Kazakhs and Uigurs aiding across the Sino Soviet frontier amid mass Turkic migration from Sinkiang. The Soviets intensified border patrols and cited seizures and arrests in Ukraine and Russia of propaganda materials and falsified documents.
Ralph McGill notes 655 votes as the threshold and reports forty four Republicans opposing Goldwater. He cites Eisenhower’s stance and GOP worries that extreme conservatives aim to form a separate party and purge moderates. He calls the move dangerous for party unity.
An anti Goldwater faction within the Republican party grows uneasy as support frays and a national campaign of bitterness is feared. Some lawmakers hint that Eisenhower could rally late, but silence mirrors Gettysburg as Goldwater’s delegate total climbs toward the 655 mark.
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