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Scottsdale Progress

Location

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Jul 31, 1961

Page

2

Khrushchev Pushes 20 Year Plan Across USSR

Khrushchev launches a nationwide sale of his 50,000 word 20 year economic program to outpace the United States by 1980. Western experts question farm output targets while praising welfare promises and a housing drive to provide private apartments within a decade.

Moscow UPI Nikita S. Khrushchev Khrushchev Communist Party United States Soviet Union U.S.S.R E Farmen Kashchev Tete Russia Reds

Awards Set For Craft Work At Schools Here

Awards will be presented this week for craft work at county recreation centers in Scottsdale school district. The Navajo center on Granite Reef Road hosts the first party Wednesday at 7 45 p m with a dance to 10 30 p m. Kaibab and Pima programs follow with similar honors for participants and contributing organizations.

Scottsdale Navajo Center Granite Reef Road Kaibab School 62Nd Lafayette Kaibab Ingleside Pima E. Osborn Rd Hohokam

Weather Outlook With Showers Through Tuesday

Partly cloudy with afternoon or night thundershowers in the area from today through Tuesday. Temperatures little changed. Highs near 97 today and around 100 Tuesday. lows around 76 Tuesday morning. Data covers the 24 hour period ending at 4 am.

Charities Urged to Improve Accounting or Lose Trust

A two year Rockefeller funded study urges 100000 voluntary health and welfare agencies to adopt uniform accounting and reporting systems and proposes a national commission. Basil OConnor criticizes the panel and warns a regulatory body could erode citizen rights to voluntary association. The report says little audited data exist on the 1.5 billion dollars given annually.

New York UPI Rockefeller Foundation National Commission On Voluntary Health Basil O’connor The National Foundation Health, Education and Welfare O’connor

Builder Starts 2 Percent Million In Homes Here

Forrest Cox Home Builders begins five model homes for a 24 million development on a 40 acre tract along Hayden Road between Thomas and McDowell. Utilities and sewers are finished. About 200 homes will be built in Cox Heights unit 4. New models to the east will replace older models. The front entrance and street lighting will be upgraded with a lighting district. Completion of the new models is expected in about six weeks.

Hayden Road Thomas and McDowell Forrest Cox Home Builders Cox Heights Scottsdale

Coast Guard Academy Celebrates 85th Anniversary

The Coast Guard Academy in New London Connecticut marks 85 years since its founding by law on July 31 1876 to fill Revenue Marine Service vacancies. From nine cadets on the J C Dobbin the school now enrolls about 600 cadets on a 78 acre campus.

New London, Conn UPI U. S. Coast Guard Academy Revenue Marine Service The Coast Guard Livesaving Service Secretary of the Treasury J. C. Dobbin

Adjutant Named At Fort Huachuca

Capt. Adrian P. Williamson of Phoenix is named adjutant of the Army Combat Surveillance and Target Acquisition Training command at Fort Huachuca. He comes from the Seventh Logistical Command in Korea and previously served as executive officer at the Charlotte recruiting station in North Carolina.

FT. Huachuca API Adrian P. Williamson Phoenix Army Combat Surveillance and Williamson Seventh Korea Charlotte, N.C

New Yorker To Name Dulles As CIA Chief

Kennedy tentatively selected a prominent firm partner from Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton as potential CIA head. White House aide said no change in Dulles retirement plans, though he did not confirm Hamilton’s nomination.

New Yorker Oe Dulles CIA Jynisport Mass UPI Kennedy Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton Allen W. Dulles White House PJ Salinger Mr. Dulles Hor Dulles Agency Greenwich Conn

Scions Expect Liquor Accord in Arizona Legislature

Leaders from both parties in Phoenix anticipate a liquor bill compromise after a joint committee meeting. A proposed agreement reportedly includes a May 31 1963 cutoff for existing leases and was presented to the House and Senate caucuses for approval.

Phoenix UPI Sena Senate

Phoenician Dies In Kansas Turnpike Crash

Jimmy L. Stith a 29 year old resident of Phoenix died in a Kansas Turnpike accident when his tractor trailer veered and struck a bridge 16 miles north of Eldorado police reported the wake of the crash.

Phoenician Kansas Eldorado Kan UPI Jimmy L. Stith Phoenix Kansas Turnpike Stith

Britain Applies for Membership in European Common Market

London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced Britain would apply to join the six nation European common market. Labor and Conservative supporters booed as he outlined negotiations to determine joining conditions and the potential shift from traditional aloofness from continental alliances.

London UPI Harold Macmillan Britain Labor Party Macmillan

Mickey Mouse Denounced by East German Reds

Berlin reports the East German communist paper Frei hit denounces Mickey Mouse as an American agent aiding escapes to the West. A Halle talk by functionary Heyde warns children against Mickey Mouse books and clubs, claiming readers reveal parental addresses to Western head hunters.

Berlin UPI Mickey Mouse Freiheit Sunday Heyde Halle West Germany Mickey Mouse Club

Tunisian Says French Planes Violated Air Space Over Territory

The semi official Tunisian news agency reports 19 Tunisian air space violations by France last Saturday. Many flights circled the Bizerte naval base amid the four day battle there as Tunisian troops hold the Casbah and request greater Western support.

Tunis Tunisia UPI France Bizerte Casbah United States United Nations Security Council United Arab Republic

Field Day Held by Recreation Centers in Scottsdale

Patrons of five Maricopa County Parks and Recreation centers in the Scottsdale school district held a field day at Kaibab school on 62nd Street and Lafayette. Events included ping-pong standing broad jump football pass basketball throw softball throw and checkers. Kaibab scored 73 Navajo 67 Kiva 61 Ingleside 32 Hopi 15.

Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department Scottsdale Kaibab School Lafayette Blvd Kaibab Ingleside

Freight Train Kills Sleeper Near San Carlos

Norman Thompson twenty two, an employee of the San Carlos Cattle Association, was killed when a freight train struck him while he slept on Southern Pacific tracks near San Carlos. Engineer Leo Corbett said he saw the man on the rail but could not stop in time.

San Carlos UPS Ernest Cutter San Carlos Tribal Leo Corbett Thompson

Airport Jet Runway To Be Resurfaced

The jet landing runway at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix will close for 72 hours for resurfacing. The 5,600 foot south runway will be completely resurfaced and sealed with 11 000 tons of asphalt and concrete. Eighty five workers on two 10 hour shifts will operate 37 pieces of heavy equipment to complete the project.

Phoenix API Sky Harbor

Reds Seek Uncontrolled Troop Pullout From Laos

At Geneva the 14 nation Laos conference shelved a Soviet backed article calling for immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops. Western delegates pressed for amendments to require ICC supervision and clear protocol terms. Averell Harriman supported the sense of withdrawal with supervisory conditions.

Reds Laos Geneva UPI Comunists U.S Averell Harriman International Control Commission

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