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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1969
Page
9
The national convention of Students for a Democratic Society meets in Chicago with heavy security and outside crowds. Police and newsmen kept out as delegates register amid two anonymous bomb threats at the Chicago Coliseum during the event’s second day.
A Pima Navajo area carnival to raise funds for the Little League will be held Saturday at the Pima playing field from 6 to 9 p.m. The event features 12 game booths and dinners for 50 cents with two hot dogs chips and beans or a sloppy joe and chips. Martha Chambers runs the carnival with Rabby Free. Next Wednesday the Miracle of the White Stallions will be shown. Candy and pop will be sold.
About 150 North Vietnamese troops stormed Tay Ninh City near Saigon at dawn seizing homes around a temple and fighting Allied forces in the city, with reports of heavy shelling and casualties as American and South Vietnamese units resisted. Military sources said the action continued with U.S. air support arriving as troops contested the town near the Cambodian border.
UPI reports that during dawn on June 3 the Australian carrier Melbourne and the US destroyer Evans collided after misinterpreted messages, causing 74 US Navy deaths. Testimony from Stevens and Jacobs details last minute course changes and reversed message orders. Rescue efforts recovered one survivor from a lifeboat while others were lost at sea. Melbourne proceeds to Singapore for bow repairs.
Firemen blamed spontaneous combustion for a $75 fire at Speed Specialists 516 N Scottsdale Rd. The blaze confined to trash near an outside wall of a storage shed was reportedly put out by employees. They also fought a 20 acre brush fire at 64th St and Mockingbird Ln and another trash bin fire at 8221 E Garfield.
The United States and South Vietnam urged the communist side to accept genuinely free elections under international supervision. They warned failure would show communists seek to impose their will as Viet Cong leaders claimed a Provisional Revolutionary Government.
Scottsdale city leaders and planning commissioners toured Westlake and Irvine Ranch developments in California to study zero side yard setbacks green belts walkways and integrated shopping areas. Mayor Bud Tims and Vice Mayor Ken Murray along with Councilman Bob Jones did not join the latest trip. City Manager Bill Donaldson and Planning Director George Fretz accompanied the delegation.
The Farm Workers Organizing Committee of Arizona escalates protests at JG Boswell Co and nearby vineyards Talwiwi Ranches Arrowhead Ranches and Alber t Romero leads lines demanding union recognition. Workers seek union benefits including overtime pay life insurance credit unions and rest breaks. Managers acknowledge issues but say no ground rules exist for negotiations since farm workers lack NLRA coverage. Workers reportedly claim 300 joined, managers dispute.
ASU will lose 350000 in National Defense Education Act loan funds next year reducing available aid from 1.2 million this year. About 400 students would be excluded from federal aid while 1819 received loans this year. Director Richard Wooton criticized a 30 percent nationwide cut and warned students may quit college for jobs.
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