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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1968
Page
7
UPI interviews with diverse Americans reveal mixed views on the Kerner Report. Respondents warn of more riots, debate funding for reforms, and express skepticism about immediate action or lasting change. Some see the report as political mobilization or a waste of money.
Senator Harris and fellow liberals plan to use a top priority bill to repeal last year's public welfare restrictions by April 1. The effort hinges on aligning the welfare repeal with the first major Senate bill, while the administration eyeing extended excise taxes may block other paths. The debate follows the Johnson antiriot commission findings urging swift removal of welfare curbs amid ghetto conditions.
John Paul Martin, a 35 year old former mental patient with prior assault and robbery arrests, trespassed into the Kennedy building to propose marriage to Jackie Kennedy. He was arrested on a trespass charge and ordered to Bellevue for psychiatric observation after signaling incoherent intent. A boxed orchid with two cards, reading I love you and I want to marry you, was delivered to the building.
A 16 year old white youth fired a shotgun at a security guard outside Negro congressional candidate Charles Evers home in Jackson Mississippi. Police traced the gunman from his car license plate and the youth claimed a misunderstanding with the guard who flashed a gun. No injuries were reported. Charles Evers, NAACP field secretary since 1963, is Medgar Evers brother victim of a 1963 sniper attack.
Little League registration for boys in Kiva Kaibab Cocopah districts occurs at Kiva and Cocopah schools on Tuesday and Friday evenings 7:30 to 9. Parents may register at either site. Eligible boys age 8 to 12 as of Aug 1 1968 need birth certificates. For info call Bob Boarman 945 3447.
Moscow reports the unmanned Zond 4 automatic station entered Earth orbit and launched on a new trajectory to study near Earth space. Western experts say it may loop around the moon and attempt a return, testing systems for a potential manned lunar flight.
The United States launched an Orbiting Geophysical Observatory five with a 25 experiment payload to study solar radiation, magnetic forces, and Earth's upper atmosphere. OGO 5 aims for a 92 000 mile high final orbit to aid radiation warning research for Apollo astronauts. A companion sun monitoring satellite is set for launch from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Dr Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who led the first human heart transplant, said he will pursue a new transplant after declining a moratorium proposed by three American heart surgeons. He received a presidential citation from the American College of Cardiology for lifting the burden of heart disease. Barnard will address the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, then visit New York, Michigan, and Minnesota before returning to South Africa. The first transplant occurred December 3, 1967 in Cape Town on Louis Washkansky, who died 18 days later, and his second on January 2 on Phillip Blaiberg.
The Rural Fire Department answered five calls including two brush fires a gas wash a trash container fire and a ring stuck on a girl's finger. Sheryl Hill 15 freed from a ring at 7:55 p.m. Saturday. Two brush fires at 6728 Monterey Way and 8231 E Coolidge with unknown causes. Fire at Main St and Brown Ave a gas wash. Trash container fire at First wt and Scottydale Ra with unknown cause.
A Phoenix bakery worker fuels income by baking bread for mining towns. The copper dollars earned help buy food and surprises, reflecting how many Arizonans depend on mines even if they are not miners themselves. The reader notes hopes the dime store stays open after supper.
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