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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1965
Page
7
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield rejects Gerald Ford's House GOP plan to bomb missile bases near Hanoi. He warns such action could widen the Asian conflict and is not a sensible move for policy.
Gunmen raided a London prison freeing four inmates including Ronald Biggs, a member of the gang behind Britain's Great Train Robbery. Special precautions had been in place after Charles Wilson escaped last summer. Biggs was the second gang member to flee. Moscow announces reforms toward a capitalist basis, ending the quota system to boost consumer goods and profits. In Chattanooga, two Kansas women win Powder Puff Derby by computer-fed results from the transcontinental race.
Washington The House Agriculture Committee approved a four year cotton program shifting federal price support to direct payments to producers. Supports would be set near the low world market level and funded for the plan’s four year span.
Washington reports a modest improvement in the U.S. balance of payments as a three month surplus in its internal and international accounts appears for April May and June. In Arizona the Corporation Commission hears a Scottsdale Scottsdale area service petition with a 25 minute presentation from Tram president Malavenda requesting charter service and new routes. Weather outlook is clouding with a slight chance of thunderstorms Friday. temperatures reach around 112 today and 110 Friday.
U S Marines initiate a battalion sized search and destroy mission near Da Nang facing mortar bombardment and heat at 133 degrees. They fatally wounded over 100 Viet Cong and captured 25 suspects while one Marine died and six were injured.
Harold Wilson told Parliament he sent junior minister Harold Davies to Hanoi to start dialogue with the Communists and seek possible peace talks. Davies, a left wing figure and joint parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, has friendly ties with Ho Chi Minh.
Two unionized plants Tempe Equipment Co and Valley Redi Mix run above normal while most sand and gravel yards shut down. Allied Concrete and Materials Mesa and Tri-City Ready Mix Tempe operate as nonunion yards. Opening of Saguaro High School may be delayed to September 1966 without a wage agreement.
A six day recess was ordered Wednesday in contract talks between contractors' representatives and business agents of the Operating Engines, stalled since June. The pause came at the request of Louis Ziman of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
The Scottsdale Town Enrichment Program STEP committee will hold an 8 15 p m general meeting at City Council chambers to discuss a proposed 4 million bond financing the civic center and park. Bennie Gonzales the civic center architect and Albert Keisker of Real Estate Research Corp will speak on the economy.
The Senate pressed toward a final vote on President Johnsons 6.8 billion Medicare bill with amendments still before them. Sen Russell Long said a final vote Friday seemed likely while Sen Robert Byrd proposed retirement at 60 with two thirds of pension benefits and a rising scale through age 65. The plan would boost the top Social Security benefit from 127 to 135.90 a month.
A coroner's jury heard testimony that suspect Edward Michael Jr. suffered epilepsy and had recent treatment at a veterans hospital. Witnesses, including Michael Sr. and Detective Townsend, described the fatal shooting of Florence Michael at her home and suggested the husband fired the gun. A preliminary hearing is set for Friday in Justice Court.
Oregon authorities report six hostages including a 12 year old boy were released unharmed from a motel near Springfield after being held by Bowles and Gray who abducted a Springfield woman and her son early Wednesday and then four vacationers from Washington state. FBI filed kidnapping warrants while state and local agencies pursue the pair. victims include Mrs Corbin Clinton 12 Aldis Rickstins Janis 14 and Zanis Bauze.
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