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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1964
Page
2
The edition dated Monday June 8 1964 presents the Progress Platform pledge by editor Jonathan Marshall and Maurice L Cartir promising honest reporting and refusal to twist facts. It lists subscription rates six evenings per week with Arizona rate 15.60 and out of state 18.20 plus motor route and postage details.
The Progress urges readers to help grow circulation by adding one new subscriber each, promising better coverage, staff, features, and advertising growth to serve the community of Comstown and surrounding areas. Call WH Hot with a new subscriber name.
A caller disputes an editorial and attacks the civil rights bill as Communist inspired. He claims the worst Communist is Sen Dirksen, which surprises the editors who had viewed him as a Republican. The joke ends with a search under the bed for the senator.
A reflective note praises kind acts and their power to spread happiness. Quoted lines from Tennyson Marcus Aurelius and George Ellio p underscore how benevolence eases others lives and elevates everyday interactions.
Senator Edward Kennedy toured Western Europe to marshal funds for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Cambridge Massachusetts. He met German industrialists and labor leaders in Bonn Frankfurt Munich and Hamburg and discussed gifts with officials including President He Miche Lubke. A public drive is also underway led by exporters and top industrialists, with aims at raising millions.
Italy donated marble for a cultural center in Washington bearing Kennedy’s name. Britain will fund scholarships at Harvard Radcliffe and MIT. London’s lord mayor launches a 2.8 million dollar drive. An acre at Runnymede is dedicated to Kennedy with a life plinth. Venezuela Puerto Rico and other nations pledged gifts. The piece frames Kennedy’s global impact and memory.
The American Medical Association cautions against tanning highlighting health risks before summer. It cites aging skin and vitamin D concerns while predicting tanning may lose its status symbol appeal. The piece weaves in travel notes about the Magna Carta’s wartime display and a Colorado oil shale statistic.
President Johnson urges stronger federal enforcement and expanded waste treatment to curb pollution. He cites 359 billion gallons daily usage and a projected trillion by 2000, noting half a million new chemicals and widespread inadequacies in sewage treatment across towns and industries. The surgeon general backs protection of water supplies as with food.
Washington notes that Laos has never formed a stable nation since colonial era cycles. The region remains Buddhist in heritage with tribal groups and a history of external influence. Residents prefer neutrality and distrust foreign intervention, questioning the domino theory's relevance in their sovereignty.
The article argues Southeast Asian nations want autonomy but cannot be left alone. It notes Chinese influence, mainland wealth, and rising Beijing power. Kennedy's policy fails, Dulles policy criticized, and withdrawal must be managed with face. It warns war is possible, potentially nuclear, but unlikely.
Henry Taylor argues President Johnson must act as a statesman to confront China and USSR. He criticizes the Kennedy-era approach as inadequate and urges a break with past policies. He insists U S concessions to the Kremlin require reciprocal concessions in return.
The piece argues President Johnson should overhaul Kennedy era foreign policy. It notes changes like Thomas Mann's elevation but criticizes Dean Rusk Averell Harriman and the Bundy brothers as stuck in past ideas. Robert Murphy warns against trust in peaceful coexistence and urges realism toward the Soviet Union and China.
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