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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1975
Page
3
An Arizona editorial argues that non English speaking students face a major disadvantage and supports a statewide bilingual education bill. It contends that teaching in Spanish helps Mexican American children gain equal opportunities, reduce dropouts, and later yield skilled citizens despite initial costs.
Today's Mailbag highlights Larry White for aiding a California couple at night on a dark highway. The note arrives amid a string of negative letters tied to economic worries, urging readers to practice Samaritanism to lift community spirit.
A Scottsdale motorist named Larry White stopped to help a stranded driver on Interstate 8 near El Cajon. He drove 70 miles round trip to repair a spare tire and then mounted it, doing so without expectation of reimbursement.
Don Frye of Scottsdale argues that police high speed chases endanger the public and that road blocks or other intercept methods should replace pursuit. He compares chasing speeding motorists to ambulance speeds and urges safer enforcement using modern communications.
Linda Wade objects to February 24 coverage of an Indian School and Pima Road auto crash showing injured and deceased. She says the images disrespected victims and questions the necessity of such coverage by the Scottsdale Daily Progress after six years of readers.
A letter argues city layoffs of 80 employees would harm services and urges alternatives. The writer backs garbage fees water rate raises and a temporary sales tax hike on nonessentials to bridge the deficit while stressing citizen support for government.
In a letter to the editor Gus Younger condemns deadly high speed police chases after a crash at Indian School Road and Pima. He urges using license numbers and channels to apprehend violators, noting fatalities and calling for abolition in many states.
Sen. John Tower, Texas Republican policy chief, met with President Ford in the White House to pressure him on filibuster rulings by Vice President Rockefeller. Ford aides say the President urged Rockefeller but did not give direct instructions, widening rifts with conservatives and highlighting Ford’s political risk ahead of 1976.
Washington column argues the Senate Banking Committee rubber stamps Carla Hills to lead HUD. The piece blasts the lack of qualifications cited by opponents while noting many senators praised her as intelligent and tough minded.
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