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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1961
Page
3
Santa Fe reports public schools in New Mexico at their worst financial crisis in a generation as lawmakers raise taxes to refill agency tills while welfare needs surge. Dem lawmakers clash with Republicans over a proposed sales tax hike as districts seek money for reduced teacher staffing and broader economic development.
A $100 million plan will place a new Madison Square Garden atop Penn Station in Manhattan with a 750 room hotel and office block nearby. The complex to include convention halls and a restaurant is slated for completion by the 1964 World’s Fair and will seat 25 000 with parking for about 3000 cars. The current Garden aged 35 will stay open until the new venue opens, after which it may be converted to apartments or offices.
A Soviet patrol ship captured the Japanese survey ship No 10 Gycei Maru and its 20 crew off the northern Kuriles, where Russia occupies territory. The 83 ton vessel had been surveying fish resources when seized.
London reports Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd is set to unveil austerity measures to curb Britain’s recent prosperity. Expected moves include higher taxes, higher interest rates, and reduced government spending to slow wage and price growth.
The Army has launched a $1.25 million battery tester capable of testing 17,280 batteries at once. It will sample 20 million batteries bought yearly by the Army Navy Air Force and Marines costing $13.5 million. The device marks a major efficiency boost for military supply testing.
Harvard College Observatory confirms a new bright comet named Comet Wilson after A Stewart Wilson of Seattle who first spotted it from an airliner over the Pacific. The object lies between Gemini and Auriga with a tail about 12 degrees long spanning millions of miles.
The Senate prepared to vote on a 60 page farm bill to cut grain surpluses and raise farm income. Kefauver prepared to oppose a provision easing antitrust rules for cooperatives while Kennedy aides supported broader powers for farm programs and mergers. The Justice Department urged defeat of the co op immunity plan. emal Celler warned the measure could carve out broad antitrust immunity harming consumers.
New York UPI reports Dr. David R. Mace executive director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors urges parents to outlaw dating under age 15 arguing it harms youth. He cites anxiety social tyranny coercion exploitation and links to teen pregnancy early marriages and rising disease among 10 to 15 year olds.
A. E. Baughman, chief of the U.S. Secret Service since 1948, submitted his resignation to be effective August 31. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon accepted the move with genuine regret. No successor was announced, but Paul J. Paterni, deputy chief and former head of the Chicago office, was discussed as a possible replacement.
U S Senator Frank Clark travels to Cambodia to inspect defects blamed on a Ro chester engineering firm and a U S aid project now costing over 30 million dollars. Investigators probe construction faults as ICA weighs legal action and Kennedy orders urgent repairs.
A dry placer gold recovery machine demonstrated near Phoenix could boost US gold output and alter global monetary standings. United Placer Industries founder Mrs. Geraldine Freund argues the invention may outpace rivals like South Africa and Russia, by extracting desert gold without water using new earth moving and sifting methods developed by engineers Kelsey Boltz and Donald Wright.
John D. Pickett of Chicago Ill will present a public lecture on Christian Science at 8 p.m. July 27 in Arcadia High School Auditorium under the First Church of Christ Scientist Scotts dale. The talk titled Christian Science the Joy of Living by Divine Authority invites the public without charge.
Geoffrey London 33 said he was very sorry after his seven horsepower car routed Queen Elizabeth's household cavalry in Belgrave Square. He paid a 10 pound fine for driving without reasonable thought, describing the incident as a nightmare amid stampede like horses jumping and a marching band playing We Are the Soldiers of the Queen.
United Press International reports three separate collisions left eleven dead. In Wisconsin a convertible carrying two girls collided head on with a semi-trailer, killing the four aboard. In Nebraska a Wyoming family of five was rear struck by another car and then hit by a cement truck, killing four and injuring nine. A Nevada collision on a divided highway killed four people including a couple and their companion, while another car and its driver perished among the wreck.
Three Skyhook balloons will lift two monkeys and 24 mice from Fort Churchill Manitoba this summer in a cosmic ray experiment. Balloons with 6 million cubic feet of gas will reach 125000 to 150000 feet, per the Navy.
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