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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1961
Page
4
The Progress Platform pledges unbiased news gathering with clearly labeled editorials and a commitment to present facts without distortion. It stresses reporting on important issues head on while maintaining integrity and accuracy for readers.
Dozens of lawmakers security officials business leaders and military chiefs press for ending the self imposed testing freeze. President Kennedy delays decision creating a commission study and a several week delay to assess risks and possible Soviet neutron bomb development.
The piece explains Uncle Sam runs a debt of 1 million dollars per hour and adds four payroll workers every five minutes. It argues deficit spending is pitched as stimulus to an 41% growth rate, notes a $300 billion debt, and warns the policy could have long term harm despite claimed benefits. Time will tell.
Cape Canaveral prepares for the second Project Mercury sub orbital shot aiming to send a man 300 miles downrange at 100 miles altitude and 5000 mph. If successful, it would shrink the gap to Yuri Gagarin and showcase American openness in space exploration to a global audience.
A 1950s snapshot notes the State Department has grown to 23,247 employees with 2,127 foreign service officers in Washington and 6,325 FSO abroad. Budgets rose from 14 million to fund vast new duties, while CIA influence, leadership turnover, and policy shifts spark debate and scapegoating in Washington.
As congressional opposition in Washington grows to recognizing Outer Mongolia, Far Eastern diplomats say Washington may let Japan take the lead. Recognition would anger Nationalist China, yet Japan may pursue it to gain a listening post amid a Sino Soviet rift.
Traveling Mongolian officials privately favor diplomatic ties with the West while Mongolia maintains relations with India Cambodia Nepal Burma Yugoslavia and Guinea outside the Soviet bloc. Britain readies a sharp austerity plan to cut imports and boost exports amid postwar fiscal strains. Russia threatens a UN showdown over Dag Hammarskjold and a proposed troika system. East Germany faces worsening food shortages due to heavy rains delaying potatoes and sugar beets.
Washington report allege the Kennedy administration filled embassies with heavy campaign contributors, many lacking language skills and meeting only minimum professional requirements. The piece cites Envoys in Netherlands Sweden Switzerland Czechoslovakia Denmark France Finland Luxembourg Yugoslavia and other nations as examples. It argues that despite revamping the foreign service six months into Kennedy’s term, language abilities remain unchanged from Eisenhower era, sparking concerns about qualified representation abroad.
Washington notes highlight the distressed metal trades sector facing competition from the Soviet Union and other nations. The piece discusses Russia's aggressive export strategy, patent copying, and the impact on U S tool and die makers, with broader concerns about unemployment and Berlin as urgent national issues.
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