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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1968
Page
2
The Odell survey shows local support for a 12 month year but questions key impacts. Costs include higher salaries and maintenance, limited teacher study time, air conditioning expense, vacation disruption for families and workers, and business travel issues in the fourth quarter.
A large Phoenix Valley convention drew praise for planning but suffered from record heat. About 150 participants fainted during and after Wednesday’s parade as temperatures topped 100 degrees. Visitors reported being overcharged by some local businesses, though overall the event benefited the area despite conditions.
The Navy FMB carrier version of the TFX fighter bomber faces outright cancellation by the House Armed Services Committee as July markup looms. Senate approval had already finished the Navy TFX, while a trimmed $455 million package for eight aircraft was rejected, risking $100 million in R&D and a shift to the VFX-1 with the Phoenix missiles.
Jeremy Larner’s The Answer explores a restless student’s LSD journey with Dr. Tyrian’s psychedelic castle and a final disillusionment as the hero rejects the drug and returns home to earn a PhD. Simultaneously praised and critiqued, Beauvoir’s Decisive novel and Kennedy’s Decisions for a Decade anchor the broader social dialogue.
A reader rebutts June 17 editorial arguing against gun registration. The letter warns registration could lead to confiscation and urges enforcing current laws with stronger penalties, defending responsible citizens and opposing broad restrictions. The correspondent signs as 313 Navajo Trail, Scottsdale.
The letter praises a Scottsdale Progress gun monument idea and cites skepticism about practicality. It notes NRA pressure, summarizes a June editorial on sanity and gun risks, and urges stricter controls to reduce crime despite doubts about preventing violence.
Ten years ago the Town Council invited bids for a sanitary sewage collection treatment and disposal system and announced a 24 hour police radio system. Town Marshal H O Red Cooper said the project will speed calls and dispatches. Also noted were WWII and Korea interment ceremonies in Washington and the election of Mort Kimisey as mayor for a two year term succeeding Malcolm White.
Ralph McGill defends Hubert Humphrey by recalling the 1948 Democratic convention. He notes the Dixiecrat walkout over a weak civil rights plank and praises Humphrey's integrity in opposing the platform’s failed human rights stance.
A humorous epistolary missive warns readers of looming global duties as Hoppe departs. It playfully covers macro concerns from Middle East tensions to environmental care, tax decisions, and diplomacy with Latin America while urging civility toward Russians and China.
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